Is Farris optimization perfect?: Three-taxon statements and multiple branching

Cladistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 243-252

  Platnick, Norman I ^a   Humphries, Christopher J ^b   Nelson, Gareth ^a   Williams, David M ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001404982     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clad.1996.0017     Document Type: Article

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