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Biology 545 - Readings
January 23: Felsenstein 2001. A perspective from an original advocate of statistical approaches.
Question for discussion: Why is it that statistical approaches have become dominant?
February 6: Feng and Doolittle (1987) and Saitou and Nei (1987).
These papers introduced progressive alignments and neighbor joining, respectively.
March 6: Steel (2005). This paper addresses what we should be striving for with our models of sequence evolution.
March 27: Rannala and Yang (1996). A foundational paper in the development of Bayesian phylogenetics.
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