Toward Defining the Course of Evolution: Minimum Change for a Specific Tree Topology

1971/12/01 by Walter M. Fitch · 5,643 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Engineering · Mathematics · #Combinatorics #Computer science #Course (navigation) #Engineering #Mathematics #Plant and animal studies #Topology (electrical circuits) #Tree (set theory)

paper · doi:10.2307/2412116

published in Systematic Zoology 20(4), 406 (Allen Press)

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