Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits?

A reverence for ancestors that has pre-occupied humans since time immemorial persists to the present. Reconstructing ancestry is the focus of many biological studies but failure to distinguish between present-day descendants and long-dead ancestors has led to incorrect interpretation of phylogenetic...

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Published in:Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) 2005-03, Vol.20 (3), p.122-128
Main Authors: Crisp, Michael D., Cook, Lyn G.
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