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Nature 414, 490 (29 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35107129

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Phylogeny branches out

Yves Van de Peer1

A little more than 10 years ago, when I was entering the field of phylogenetics myself, the construction of evolutionary trees was often a daunting task. In those, still early, days of personal computers, few programs for making trees were available, and it took about two or three days of fiddling with rulers, Chinese ink and typewriters to produce a publishable tree of less than 100 sequences.