Cosmic phylogeny: reconstructing the chemical history of the solar neighbourhood with an evolutionary tree
Using 17 chemical elements as a proxy for stellar DNA, we present a full phylogenetic study of stars in the solar neighbourhood. This entails applying a clustering technique that is widely used in molecular biology to construct an evolutionary tree from which three branches emerge. These are interpr...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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