Testability and the Refutation and Corroboration of Cladistic Hypotheses

Cladistics

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 81-96

  Kluge, Arnold G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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CLADISTICS;

EID: 0031395952     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1997.tb00242.x     Document Type: Article

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