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On universal common ancestry, sequence similarity, and phylogenetic structure: the sins of P-values and the virtues of Bayesian evidence.

Biology direct - 24 Nov 2011

Theobald Douglas L

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BACKGROUND: The universal common ancestry (UCA) of all known life is a fundamental component of modern evolutionary theory, supported by a wide range of qualitative molecular evidence. Nevertheless, recently both the status and nature of UCA has been questioned. In earlier work I presented a formal, quantitative test of UCA in which model selection criteria overwhelmingly choose common ancestry over independent...

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PMID: 22114984
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-60
PMCID: PMC3314578

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