The abduction of phylogenetic hypotheses

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1145, 2006, Pages 1-110

  Fitzhugh, Kirk ^a  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abductive inference; Deduction; Hypothesis testing; Induction; Inference; Likelihood; Parsimony; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744808628     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1145.1.1     Document Type: Review

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