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Methods for Inferring Phylogenies: A Statistical View

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I thought that I should start off by delivering some unpopular opinions. Although they have always seemed to me to be self-evident to the point of tedium, I find that these are wildly controversial, and that only a small minority of systematists agrees with them.

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Felsenstein, J. (1983). Methods for Inferring Phylogenies: A Statistical View. In: Felsenstein, J. (eds) Numerical Taxonomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69024-2_35

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