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- noun Plural form of
phylogeny .
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-- Among pinnipeds, sealions belonging to Arctocephalus and Zalophus often hybridise, but they are well apart in phylogenies, and have traditionally even been grouped in separate subfamilies.
The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006
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I noticed that no ID supporter has bothered to correct your misunderstanding of phylogenies.
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It is precisely the HGT that spoils the tree-like phylogenies, hence the controversy.
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I noticed that no ID supporter has bothered to correct your misunderstanding of phylogenies.
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IOW Zachriel you have failed to show that I have a misunderstanding of phylogenies.
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Were an organism an evolutionary chimera, then its various chronometers [phylogenetic markers] would yield different, conflicting phylogenies.
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Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support treethinking?
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Indeed, in his seminal 1987 review Bacterial Evolution, Carl Woese (34) stressed the incompatibility of ribosomal RNA phylogenies with even those few higher taxa that microbiologists still believed in and noted that “not only did we know very little about eubacterial phylogeny before the advent of the rRNA approach, but what we thought we knew tended to be wrong.”
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Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support treethinking?
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His understanding of phylogenies and nested hierarchies is completely muddled.
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