"For evolutionary biologists there is something very special about the classification of living organisms, something that is not true of any other kind of taxonomy. It follows from the idea of evolution that there is one uniquely correct branching family tree of all living things, and we can base our taxonomy upon it."
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Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, ch. 10, "The One True Tree of Life", p. 256. W. W. Norton & Company (1986). ISBN: 0-393-30448-5.
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