Inferring Phylogenies

by Joseph Felsenstein

Book Overview

Phylogenies (evolutionary trees) are basic to thinking about and analyzing differences between species. Statistical, computational, and algorithmic work on them has been ongoing for four decades, with great advances in understanding. Yet no book has summarized this work until now. Inferring Phylogenies explains clearly the assumptions and logic of making inferences about phylogenies, and using them to make inferences about evolutionary processes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878931775
• ISBN13: 9780878931774
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford Un
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.0"