How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Biology Direct
- Vol. 6 (1) , 32
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-6-32
Abstract
We examine the Tree of Life (TOL) as an evolutionary hypothesis and a heuristic. The original TOL hypothesis has failed but a new "statistical TOL hypothesis" is promising. The TOL heuristic usefully organizes data without positing fundamental evolutionary truth. This article was reviewed by W. Ford Doolittle, Nicholas Galtier and Christophe Malaterre.Keywords
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