Andrew V Z Brower

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Are horizontal transfer and hybridization so prevalent in the diversity of life that the conception of a "tree" should be abandoned?

Velasco (2014, Philosophy of Science) and others have suggested recently that the "tree of life" is not really a tree, and therefore the idea is at best, a "model." At the roots, among bacteria,...

08 August 2015 8,330 1 View

What, if anything, does an unrooted phylogenetic tree "mean"?

In a recent thread about unrooted trees, there was some discussion and disagreement about whether unrooted trees are informative with regard to evolution. One sees a fair number of minimum...

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How can you tell if a phylogenetic tree is accurate?

I'm curious to see what people have to say about this. (I don't think you can.)

04 April 2014 3,887 9 View

What are the "flaws" of parsimony analysis?

It has been asserted in an answer to a recent question about single gene phylogenetic hypotheses that "the use of parsimony to choose the best tree is methodologically flawed." I wonder what the...

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