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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction: Charting the Tree of Life | |
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| The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life | |
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| The Importance of the Tree of Life to Society | |
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| A Tangled Bank: Reflections on the Tree of Life and Human Health | |
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| The Fruit of the Tree of Life: Insights into Evolution and Ecology | |
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| The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth | |
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| The Tree of Life: An Overview | |
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| The Early Branches in the Tree of Life | |
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| Bacteria and Archaea | |
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| The Origin and Radiation of Eucaryotes | |
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| Viruses and the Tree of Life | |
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| The Relationships of Green Plants | |
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| Algal Evolution and the Early Radiation of Green Plants | |
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| The Radiation of Vascular Plants | |
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| The Diversification of Flowering Plants | |
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| The Relationships of Fungi | |
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| The Fungi | |
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| The Relationships of Animals: Overview | |
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| The History of Animals | |
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| Protostomes and Platyhelminthes: The Worm's Turn | |
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| The Relationships of Animals: Lophotrochozoans | |
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| Toward a Tree of Life for Annelida | |
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| The Mollusca: Relationships and Patterns from Their First Half-Billion Years | |
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| The Relationships of Animals: Ecdysozoans | |
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| Arthropod Systematics: The Comparative Study of Genomic, Anatomical, and Paleontological Information | |
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| Arachnida | |
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| Are the Crustaceans Monophyletic? | |
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| Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution of Insects | |
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| Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insects: The Most Successful Group of Terrestrial Organisms | |
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| The Relationships of Animals: Deuterostomes | |
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| From Bilateral Symmetry to Pentaradiality: The Phylogeny of Hemichordates and Echinoderms | |
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| Chordate Phylogeny and Development | |
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| Gnathostome Fishes | |
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| Amphibians: Leading a Life of Slime | |
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| Resolving Reptile Relationships: Molecular and Morphological Markers | |
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| Phylogenetic Relationships among Modern Birds (Neornithes): Toward an Avian Tree of Life | |
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| Building the Mammalian Sector of the Tree of Life: Combining Different Data and a Discussion of Divergence Times for Placental Mammals | |
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| Human Origins: Life at the Top of the Tree | |
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| Perspectives on the Tree of Life | |
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| The Meaning of Biodiversity and the Tree of Life | |
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| A Tree Grows in Manhattan | |
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| The Tree of Life and the Grand Synthesis of Biology | |
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| Immeasurable Progress on the Tree of Life | |
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| Assembling the Tree of Life: Where We Stand at the Beginning of the 21st Century | |
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| Index | |