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

O'Malley, Maureen A; Koonin, Eugene V

doi:10.1186/1745-6150-6-32

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

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O'Malley, Maureen A, Koonin, Eugene V·2011·Biology Direct

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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. This article was reviewed by W. Ford Doolittle, Nicholas Galtier and Christophe Malaterre.

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Resolving the nature of LUCA remains obscured.
“The tree-of-life concept itself is a topic of active discussion in light of molecular genetics and the microbial species concept (O'Malley and Koonin, 2011), and as a result, resolving the nature of LUCA remains obscured.”
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Authors: O'Malley, M. A., & Koonin, E. V.
Affiliations: National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author: Koonin, Eugene V
ORCID: Koonin, Eugene V
Venue: Biology Direct
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2011
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Pages: 32
ISSN: 1745-6150 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-32
PMC: PMC3158114
OpenAlex: W2123233911
Cited by: 106
References: 127
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
FWCI: 0.61
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
Locations: Biology Direct (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Leverhulme Trust
University of Sydney
Economic and Social Research Council
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protist diversity and phylogeny
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
Keywords: tree of life, The Origin of Species, evolutionary hypothesis, statistical hypothesis, phylogenetic inference, evolutionary theory, history of evolutionary theory
MeSH terms: Animals, Archaea, Bacteria, Biological Evolution, Genes, Humans, Phylogeny, Selection, Genetic, Statistics as Topic, Time Factors, Vertebrates, Earth, Planet

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