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New Inferences from Tree Shape: Numbers of Missing Taxa and Population Growth Rates
1 Dec 2002
Abstract excerpt
The relative positions of branching events in a phylogeny contain information about evolutionary and population dynamic processes. We provide new summary statistics of branching event times and describe how these statistics can be used to infer rates of species diversification from interspecies trees or rates of population growth from intraspecies trees. We also introduce a phylogenetic method for estimating the...
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