Rational disagreements in phylogenetics

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 99-127

  Mc Manus, Fabrizzio Guerrero ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Maximum parsimony; Phylogenetic inference; Rational disagreements; Rationality; Styles of modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; MODELING; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY;

KUHNIA;

EID: 67651154175     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-009-9072-2     Document Type: Article

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