Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Limitations of Phylogenies in Comparative Biology

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2011-05-19

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/660020PMID 21597249
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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