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How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?
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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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“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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Metadata
- 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
- Published
- 2011
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 32
- ISSN
- 1745-6150 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3158114
- OpenAlex
- W2123233911
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 127
- Citations by year
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- 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 › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
- 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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