Beyond belief: The steady resurrection of phenetics

Beyond Cladistics: The Branching of a Paradigm

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 169-195

  Williams, David M ^a   Ebach, Malte C ^b   Wheeler, Quentin D ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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