Updating the tree of life needs both the skills of evolutionary biologists and the data from genome-crunchers — the two ignore each other at their peril. John Whitfield reports.
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Whitfield, J. We are family. Nature 446, 247–249 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446247a
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