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.

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Published
2016-04-01
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Keywords

Biology, Tree of life (biology), Interpretation (philosophy), Tree (set theory), Evolutionary biology

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