Bushes in the Tree of Life
Open Access
- 14 November 2006
- journal article
- essay
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 4 (11) , e352
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040352
Abstract
A discussion of how homoplasy (the frequency of independently evolved characters) and the spacing of cladogenetic events limit our ability to reconstruct the tree of life using existing phylogenetic methods.Keywords
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