From conviction to anti-superfluity: Old and new justifications of parsimony in phylogenetic inference

Cladistics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 276-288

  Kluge, Arnold G ^a   Grant, Taran ^b,c  

^a American Museum of Natural History ^*  (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 33745011394     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00100.x     Document Type: Review

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