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  • How phenograms and cladograms became molecular phylogenetic trees

    How phenograms and cladograms became molecular phylogenetic trees

    Update July 2024: This is an earlier version of a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the History of Biology. Abstract: Tree diagrams are the prevailing form of visualization in biological classification and phylogenetics. Already during the time of the so called Systematist Wars from the mid-1960s until the 1980s most journal articles…

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