How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?

How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?

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.

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Veröffentlicht in:Biology direct 2011-06, Vol.6 (1), p.32-32
Hauptverfasser: O'Malley, Maureen A, Koonin, Eugene V
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Animals
Archaea - genetics
Bacteria - genetics
Biological Evolution
Earth (Planet)
Genes
Humans
Phylogeny
Review
Selection, Genetic
Statistics as Topic
Time Factors
Vertebrates - genetics
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1745-6150
1745-6150
DOI:10.1186/1745-6150-6-32