Recent studies suggested that network methods should supplant tree building as the basis of genealogical analysis. This proposition is based upon two arguments. First is the observation that bacterial and archaeal lineages experience processes oppositional to bifurcation and hence the representation of the evolutionary process in a tree like structure is illogical. Second is the argument tree building approaches are circular—you ask for a tree and you get one, which pins a verificationist label on tree building that, if correct, should be the end of phylogenetic analysis as we currently know it. In this review, we examine these questions and suggest that rumors of the death of the bacterial tree of life are exaggerated at best.

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网络是否应该取代树形建筑？

最近的研究表明，网络方法应取代树的建立，成为家谱分析的基础。该主张基于两个论点。首先是观察到细菌和古细菌谱系经历了与分叉相反的过程，因此，以树状结构表示进化过程是不合逻辑的。第二个论点是构建树木的方法是循环的，即您要求一棵树，然后得到一棵，这将验证主义者的标签钉在树木上，如果正确的话，应该是我们目前所知的系统发育分析的终点。在这篇评论中，我们研究了这些问题，并提出关于细菌生命之树死亡的谣言充其量只是被夸大了。