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Phylogenetic Analysis: The Basic Method

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Techniques in Molecular Systematics and Evolution

Part of the book series: Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine ((MTBM))

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Systematics has a unique place among natural sciences because it is the most evolutionary of all sciences. It is strictly historical rather than experimental. Of course, many of the restrictions on systematics are found elsewhere. For example, neither systematists nor astronomers can perform manipulative experiments to see if what they observe will happen again in the evolution of life or stars. Sciences that focus on history have special problems and appropriate epistemologies (rules about how we establish the validity of what we know, see [1]). Systematics is unique in requiring that every practicing authority know all the work that ever came before,both good and bad. In physics

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Wenzel, J.W. (2002). Phylogenetic Analysis: The Basic Method. In: DeSalle, R., Giribet, G., Wheeler, W. (eds) Techniques in Molecular Systematics and Evolution. Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8125-8_1

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