The tree of life: Metaphor, model, and heuristic device

Systematic Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 479-489

  Mindell, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; LITERATURE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LEARNING; METAPHOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84876243684     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys115     Document Type: Review

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