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/PMC3158114 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-6-32 | DOI Listing |
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