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May 28, 1994Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences878 citations

The reconstructed evolutionary process

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SNSean NeeRMRobert M. MayPHPaul Harvey

Key Points

  • Develop mathematical probability models for reconstructed phylogenetic trees that lack data from extinct lineages.
  • Derived analytical probability models representing phylogenies constructed exclusively from contemporary taxa.
  • Formulated statistical techniques to compare empirical phylogenetic data against specified null evolutionary models.
  • Formulated mathematical solutions that account for missing unobserved extinct lineages in modern evolutionary trees.
  • Enabled the quantitative estimation of lineage birth (speciation) and death (extinction) rates from reconstructed tree structures.

Abstract

Phylogenies reconstructed from contemporary taxa do not contain information about lineages that have gone extinct. We derive probability models for such phylogenies, allowing real data to be compared with specified null models of evolution, and lineage birth and death rates to be estimated.

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Nee et al. (1994) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0d7cd3d8df3832a209b04ahttps://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1994.0068
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