Problems with "soft" polytomies

Cladistics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-145

  Coddington, Jonathan A ^a   Scharff, Nikolaj ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 0001185787     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clad.1996.0010     Document Type: Article

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