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pattern pluralism: a standalone construct

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Philosophy of biology

view that lateral gene transfer leaves no single tree of life, so many different patterns of relationship are equally real.

In philosophy of biology, pattern pluralism refers to view that lateral gene transfer leaves no single tree of life, so many different patterns of relationship are equally real. This meaning comes from Doolittle (2007) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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  1. Doolittle, W. F., & Bapteste, E. (2007). Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(7), 2043-2049. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0610699104

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