Tree thinking for all biology: the problem with reading phylogenies as ladders of progress.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Bioessays

• Publication date

  2008-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/bies.20794PMID 18693264
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