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Wilson and Sarich (1969): The birth of a molecular evolution research paradigm

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2023)

Rocks and clocks revised: New promises and challenges in dating the primate tree of life

Luca Pozzi et al.

Summary: This article provides an overview of recent advancements in phylogenetic estimation methods and discusses their importance in understanding primate evolution. The limitations and potentials of new methods are reviewed, the impact of genomic data on timetree estimation is explored, and recent studies on divergence dating using mutation rates are discussed.

EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY (2022)

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Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Log Transformation Improves Dating of Phylogenies

Uyen Mai et al.

Summary: This paper introduces a new dating method wLogDate, which formulates dating as a nonconvex optimization problem, minimizing the variance of log-transformed rate multipliers across the tree. The method is shown to be more accurate and robust to various model assumptions than alternatives on simulated and real data.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2021)

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Review Biochemistry & Molecular Biology