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A complicated, almost conflicting situation exists in contemporary biology, i.e., there are two scientific concepts in existence that solve some phylogenetic problems in a different way. These concepts are evolutionary morphology and molecular biology. Modern biology urgently needs these contradictions to be examined and removed.
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Ivanova-Kazas, O.M. Molecules, morphology, and phylogeny. Paleontol. J. 50, 1474–1476 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030116130074
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