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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl8189 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl8189 It looks like they looked at a larger amount of the gen
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl8189 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl8189
It looks like they looked at a larger amount of the genome, and still found that relationships at the level of Order and below were hard to be sure about, since different genomic regions disagreed. They then speculate that this is related to different geological / tectonic / geomorphological processes occurring at that point in history, compared to the time of the earlier divergences. It’s a frustrating area of science; we’ve learned that the reality is that some aspects of evolutionary history are very hard to be sure about, but scientific publishing and careers require more interesting claims.