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Paralogy and the Centre of Origin Concept
Author(s) -
Ebach Malte C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1999.tb00275.x
Subject(s) - biology , zoology
Ancestral area methodology, applied to finding the centre of origin, conflicts with most cladistic biogeographic methods since it uses, not reduces, paralogy. A new term, area cladistics, is herein proposed as an efficient paralogy‐free (or reduced) method under the three‐item philosophy that currently exists with other methods under the broad term cladistic biogeography.