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Digging Down Below the Tree of Life

March 29, 2013

Originally published at www.astrobio.net

A family tree unites a diverse group of individuals that all carry genetic vestiges from a single common ancestor at the base of the tree. But this organizational structure falls apart if genetic information is a communal resource as opposed to a family possession.


March 29, 2013


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