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Originally posted by monkenstick:
i'm an undergrad, and the topic recently in "genetics, biodiversity and evolution" has actually been phylogenetic trees. The lecturer specifically stated that gene trees are not synonymous with species trees and that it was incorrect to automatically assume that any data used in phylogenetic tree building would give you a 100 percent accurate species tree
The book Peter B quotes concurs, I don't know why he thinks it doesn't.
Chapter 8. 8.2 Gene trees & species trees.
Mark
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