Languages, like genes, evolve by a process of descent with modification. This striking similarity between biological and linguistic evolution allows us to apply phylogenetic methods to explore how ...

The phylogenetic bootstrap is the most commonly used method for assessing statistical confidence in estimated phylogenies by non-Bayesian methods such as maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood (ML).

Read me first! -- Tutorial : create a tree! -- Acquiring and aligning the sequences -- pt. 1. Major methods for estimating phylogenetic trees. Neighbor-joining trees -- Drawing phylogenetic trees -- ...

The paper: M.C. Brandley et al., "Partitioned Bayesian analyses, partition choice, and the phylogenetic relationships of scincid lizards," Systematic Biol, 54:373-90, 2005. (Cited in 73 papers) The ...