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arxiv: 0803.0195 · v1 · submitted 2008-03-03 · 🧬 q-bio.PE · q-bio.QM

More Taxa Are Not Necessarily Better for the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States

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We show that the accuracy of reconstrucing an ancestral state is not an increasing function of the size of taxon sampling.

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