History, objectivity, and the construction of molecular phylogenies

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 451-468

  Suárez Díaz, Edna ^a   Anaya Muñoz, Victor H ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automation; Character weighting; Molecular phytogenies; Objectivity; Quantification; Statistical Methods

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; HISTORY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC CODE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 56549083802     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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