In this era of Big Data, the prevailing wisdom is that more information leads to better answers. However, a new Canadian study shows that in the hunt for life's ancient ancestors, more data can actually lead to less truth. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the re...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-microbial-family-tree-statistically-earliest.html)