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Rewriting Evolution—“Been There, Done That”
A recent paper by a science journalist in Nature shows major errors in understanding phylogenies, in this case of placental mammals. The underlying unrooted tree is probably correct, but the placement of the root just reflects a well-known error from the acceleration in the rate of evolution among s...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23558594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evt048 |
| Sumario: | A recent paper by a science journalist in Nature shows major errors in understanding phylogenies, in this case of placental mammals. The underlying unrooted tree is probably correct, but the placement of the root just reflects a well-known error from the acceleration in the rate of evolution among some myomorph rodents. |
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