1. Parsimony methods
2. Counting evolutionary changes
3. How many trees are there?
4. Finding the best tree by heuristic search
5. Finding the best tree by branch and bound
6. Ancestral states and branch lengths
7. Variants of parsimony
8. Compatibility
9. Statistical properties of parsimony
10. A digression on history and philosophy
11. Distance matrix methods
12. Quartets of species
13. Models of DNA evolution
14. Models of protein evolution
15. Restriction sites, RAPDs, AFLPs, and microsatellites
16. Likelihood methods
17. Hadamard methods
18. Bayesian inference of phylogenies
19. Testing models, trees, and clocks
20. Bootstrap, jackknife, and permutation tests
21. Paired-sites tests
22. Invariants
23. Brownian motion and gene frequencies
24. Quantitative characters
25. Comparative methods
26. Coalescent trees
27. Likelihood calculations on coalescents
28. Coalescents and species trees
29. Alignment, gene families, and genomics
30. Consensus trees and distances between trees
31. Biogeography, hosts, and parasites
32. Phylogenies and paleontology
33. Tests based on tree shape
34. Drawing trees
35. Phylogeny software
Joe Felsenstein is Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences
at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he has taught for
more than thirty years. He earned a B.S. (Honors) in Zoology from
the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Ph.D. in Zoology from
the University of Chicago. Dr. Felsenstein is the author of the
widely used PHYLIP package of programs for inferring phylogenies.
He served as President of the Society for the Study of
Evolution in 1993 and has received numerous awards, including:
election to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(1992); the Sewall Wright Award, American Society of Naturalists
(1993; election to
membership in the National Academy of Sciences (1999); and the
Weldon Memorial Prize, Oxford University (2000). His work has
ranged from theoretical evolutionary genetics to statistical
methods for inferring phylogenies. His current research interests
include the development of coalescent-based Markov Chain Monte
Carlo methods of computing likelihoods for models of evolution
within species, and development of statistical methods for
inferences about quantitative characters within and between
species.
"Joe Felsenstein has had more positive influence on the statistical
revolution of phylogenetics than any other researcher in the field.
For that reason, many biologists view him as the father of
statistical phylogenetics. It was with this in mind that I finally
got my hands on his long-awaited book, Inferring Phylogenies. The
short answer is: it delivers. Inferring Phylogenies is quite simply
an instant classic."--AJ Drummond, Heredity
"The book is full of expert insights, as one would expect from an
author who has made important original contributions to many of the
areas he covers. Felsenstein provides beautiful and creative
accounts of many topics. It will be a long time before there will
be a comparable book; perhaps the field is now growing too fast for
there to ever be one. The publication of Inferring Phylogenies is a
milestone for evolutionary biology in general and
phylogenetics in particular."--Fredrik Ronquist, Science
"The author certainly sets out with an ambitious goal: to survey,
in one book, the field of phylogenetics since computational methods
entered the arena forty years ago, and he amply delivers on this
promise. For researchers new to this area, the book describes
contemporary methodology in a way that is both accessible and
authoritative. For 'old hands,' it provides a wealth of background
and commentary."--Mike Steel, TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution
"Occasionally a book is a classic by the time it is published, and
this is it. The breadth is very wide with all the main expected
topics. It is hard to imagine how any lab could function without
this book."--David Penny, Systematic Biology
"Felsenstein's book represents a truly majestic discussion of the
inference and applications of phylogenetic trees. The power of this
volume lies in its unique combination of an accessible style with
undoubted intellectual authority. Over 30 years ago Crow and Kimura
produced what has become the cornerstone of theoretical population
genetics. Felsenstein has now given us the definitive resource for
anyone interested in phylogenetics. This volume is an
outstanding achievement."--Edward C. Holmes, The Quarterly Review
of Biology
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