Fallacies and false premises-a critical assessment of the arguments for the recognition of paraphyletic taxa in botany

Cladistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 174-187

  Schmidt Lebuhn, Alexander N ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; PHYLOGENETICS; RECOGNITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84858078607     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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