Luca Cavalli-Sforza and phylogenetic evolutionary methods

Human Population Genetics and Genomics 2022;2(3):0004 | https://doi.org/10.47248/hpgg2202030004

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Luca Cavalli-Sforza and phylogenetic evolutionary methods

Joseph Felsenstein

Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065, USA

Academic Editor(s): Guido Barbujani, Lounès Chikhi

Received: Aug 19, 2021 | Accepted: Feb 11, 2022 | Published: Aug 9, 2022

This article belongs to the Special Issue Luca Cavalli-Sforza’s legacy, 100 years after his birth

Cite this article: Felsenstein J. Luca Cavalli-Sforza and phylogenetic evolutionary methods. Hum Popul Genet Genom 2022; 2(3):0004. https://doi.org/10.47248/hpgg2202030004

Abstract

This paper was written to review the work of Anthony Edwards and Luca Cavalli-Sforza for a volume that reprinted papers by Anthony Edwards, along with reviews of his work in different fields.

Based on “Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory, and History of Science: Selected Papers of A. W. F. Edwards with Commentaries. Winther RG, editor. 2018. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.”

Keywords

Phylogenies, evolutionary trees, gene flow, likelihood, distance matrix methods

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