Diversity and skepticism are vital for comparative biology: a response to Donoghue and Edwards (2019)

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¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1610, USA.

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Jeremy M Beaulieu et al. Am J Bot. 2019 May.

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. 2019 May;106(5):613-617.

doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1278. Epub 2019 May 3.

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1610, USA.

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Can we build it? Yes we can, but should we use it? Assessing the quality and value of a very large phylogeny of campanulid angiosperms.
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