Project Sherlock

Paper

1985

Confidence Limits on Phylogenies: An Approach Using the Bootstrap

Joseph Felsenstein

Introduces resampling the data matrix itself, rather than trusting a single tree, as the way to attach a confidence value to any branch in a phylogeny.

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If this is the wrong level

Too hard? Start hereTree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic BiologyDavid A. Baum & Stacey D. Smith, 2012Teaches phylogenetic trees as the basic vocabulary of comparative biology, and shows how routinely they are misread by people trained to read a ladder instead of a branching diagram.

Filed under Evolutionary Biology in Biology.