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Ultimately, there is no way to measure whether a particular phylogenetic hypothesis is accurate or not, unless the true relationships among the taxa being examined are already known ( which may happen with bacteria or viruses under laboratory conditions ).
The best result an empirical phylogeneticist can hope to attain is a tree with branches that are well supported by the available evidence.
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