Common ancestry put to the test

Mike Steel and David Penny
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Mike Steel: University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. m.steel@math.cantebury.ac.nz

Nature, 2010, vol. 465, issue 7295, 168-169

Abstract: The question of whether or not all life on Earth has an ultimate common origin is a subtle one, complicated by the phenomenon of lateral gene transfer. It has now been tackled with a formal statistical analysis.

Date: 2010
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