Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects

Estimating Species Trees is a comprehensive guide to methodology for estimating species-level evolutionary histories using data from multiple genes.

This book provides a firm understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology, as well as empirical examples demonstrating its utility and limitations.

It will be instrumental in ushering in a new phylogenetic paradigm for the 21st century and is poised to become the quintessential guide to training the next generation of researchers.

This book will stimulate theoreticians to explore specific topics in more depth and encourage empiricists to test the available methods by using them in their own data analyses, ultimately moving phylogenetics closer to its ultimate practical goal of producing accurate evolutionary histories for all known organisms.