Why does a method that fails continue to be used?

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2713-2717

  Knowles, L Lacey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Demographic history; Historical inference; Nested clade analysis; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 54849419318     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00481.x     Document Type: Note

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