What Is the Tree of Life?
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Summary
A universal Tree of Life (TOL) has long been a goal of molecular phylogeneticists, but reticulation at the level of genes and possibly at the levels of cells and species renders any simple interpretation of such a TOL problematic.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2016-04-01
- Cited by
- 230
- References
- 48
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Biology, Tree of life (biology), Interpretation (philosophy), Tree (set theory), Evolutionary biology
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