Tree thinking for all biology: The problem with reading phylogenies as ladders of progress

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 854-867

  Omland, Kevin E ^a,b   Cook, Lyn G ^c   Crisp, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 50249154976     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20794     Document Type: Article

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