On universal common ancestry, sequence similarity, and phylogenetic structure: the sins of P-values and the virtues of Bayesian evidence.

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Published in Biol Direct on November 24, 2011

Authors

Douglas L Theobald1

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1: Biochemistry Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA. dtheobald@brandeis.edu

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