Phylogenetics & Systematics

A topic within Evolutionary Biology, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Biology.

Reading on Phylogenetics & Systematics

2 works

Book2012

Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

David A. Baum & Stacey D. Smith

Teaches 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.

Biology · Evolutionary Biology

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Paper1985

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.

link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy

Biology · Evolutionary Biology

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Reading on Phylogenetics & Systematics

Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

Confidence Limits on Phylogenies: An Approach Using the Bootstrap

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