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Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Feb 2007

Doolittle W Ford, Bapteste Eric

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Darwin claimed that a unique inclusively hierarchical pattern of relationships between all organisms based on their similarities and differences [the Tree of Life (TOL)] was a fact of nature, for which evolution, and in particular a branching process of descent with modification, was the explanation. However, there is no independent evidence that the natural order is an inclusive hierarchy, and incorporation of...

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PMID: 17261804
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0610699104
PMCID: PMC1892968

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