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Study already refuted and retracted

Posted by adev on 07 Dec 2011 at 08:44 GMT

However, a recent study evaluating the evolution of bacterial genes under simulated biological conditions revealed that realistic estimates of the statistics not necessarily estimate how well a reconstructed phylogeny that actually represents cladistic relationships exist in nature [48]
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0027489#article1.body1.sec4.p10

in 2007. See
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.0030158

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