La storia della vita avrà la forma di un albero o di un cespuglio?

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Si tratta di Rokas A, Carroll SB (2006) Bushes in the tree of life. PLoS Biol 4(11): e352. Il brano di Richard Dawkins riportato nell’introduzione sostiene che “… there is, after all, one true tree of life, the unique pattern of evolutionary branchings that actually happened. It exists. It is in principle knowable. We don’t know it all yet. By […]

Si tratta di Rokas A, Carroll SB (2006) Bushes in the tree of life. PLoS Biol 4(11): e352.

Il brano di Richard Dawkins riportato nell'introduzione sostiene che “… there is, after all, one true tree of life, the unique pattern of evolutionary branchings that actually happened. It exists. It is in principle knowable. We don't know it all yet. By 2050 we should – or if we do not, we shall have been defeated only at the terminal twigs, by the sheer number of species.”

Paolo Coccia