How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?

Biol Direct

Department of Philosophy, Quadrangle A14, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

Published: June 2011

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We examine the Tree of Life (TOL) as an evolutionary hypothesis and a heuristic. The original TOL hypothesis has failed but a new "statistical TOL hypothesis" is promising. The TOL heuristic usefully organizes data without positing fundamental evolutionary truth.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158114PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-6-32DOI Listing

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