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Phylogenies are increasingly prominent across all of biology, especially as DNA sequencing
makes more and more trees available. However, their utility is compromised by widespread …

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For many years, phylogenetics was a topic confined largely to systematics. However, after
the “molecular revolution” phylogenies began to permeate nearly every branch of the …

In the quest to reconstruct the Tree of Life, researchers have increasingly turned to
phylogenomics, the inference of phylogenetic relationships using genome-scale data (Box …

Mindell (2013)[henceforth simply “Mindell”] has provided a claim that the Tree of Life (ToL) is
still useful in phylogenetics as a model, a metaphor, and a heuristic. Here I examine all three …

All organisms on earth share common ancestry; we are related to every species that has
ever existed. Evolutionary biologists since Darwin have sought to infer a “tree of life,” a …

In this Special Issue of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (MPE), we celebrate a
quarter century of documenting excellence in molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary …

Ever since Darwin, the familiar genealogical pattern known as the Tree of Life (TOL) has
been prominent in evolutionary thinking and has dominated not only systematics, but also …