Towards an inclusive philosophy for phylogenetic inference

Systematic Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 331-350

  Faith, Daniel P ^a   Trueman, John W H ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corroboration; Likelihood; Parsimony; Philosophy of science; Popper; PTP; Severe test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHILOSOPHY; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHILOSOPHY; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0035527351     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150118627     Document Type: Article

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