Macroevolutionary inferences from primate phylogeny.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1995.0100

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Macroevolutionary inferences from primate phylogeny.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Jun 1995

Purvis A, Nee S, Harvey P H

Abstract excerpt

We apply new statistical methods to a recent estimate of the phylogeny of all living primate species to test a range of models of cladogenesis. Null models in which probabilities of speciation and extinction do not differ among contemporaneous lineages are not consistent with the phylogeny. We pr...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Birth Rate
Models, Statistical
Mortality
Mutation
Phylogeny
Primates
Time

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