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How to Build a Better Tree of Life
from Seed
Organizing the world's species into branches on a phylogenetic tree is a major goal of biologists trying to understand how life evolved.
DNA-sequencing technologies are providing them with more information than ever with which to accomplish this goal, but with less than 1 percent of all species currently placed in any kind of phylogeny, there is still much work to be done.
In a recent paper in Science, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin introduced new tree-building software that could expand the tree of life and change our understanding of evolution.
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