In December 2004, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium on "Systematics and the Origin of Species" to celebrate Ernst Mayr's 100th anniversary and to explore current knowledge concerning the origin of species. In 1942, Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth century's…
"The evolutionary history of species is traditionally represented using a rooted phylogenetic tree. However, when reticulate events such as hybridization, horizontal gene transfer or recombination are believed to be involved, phylogenetic networks that can accommodate non-treeli…
Phylogenies (evolutionary trees) are basic to thinking about and analyzing differences between species. This title explains the assumptions and logic of making inferences about phylogenies, and using them to make inferences about evolutionary processes.
