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A critical review is presented of fundamental conclusions on the evolution of galaxies as derived from the information provided by studies of globular clusters. It is stressed that most of the essential results concerning our Galaxy — as well as extragalactic systems — depend strongly on effects involving the accuracies of the data and sample incompleteness. High-quality observations of a much larger group of objects than presently available are required before any definite conclusions can be drawn.
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Alcaino, G. State of fundamental knowledge inferred from the study of globular clusters. Astrophys Space Sci 70, 363–375 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00639560
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