Statistical methods for evolutionary trees.
In 1963 and 1964, L. L. Cavalli-Sforza and A. W. F. Edwards introduced novel methods for computing evolutionary trees from genetical data, initially for human populations from blood-group gene frequencies. The most important development was their introduction of statistical methods of estimation applied to stochastic models of evolution.
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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TA, United Kingdom. awfe@cam.ac.uk
D019295:Computational Biology / Q000639:trends; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005821:Genetic Techniques / Q000266:history / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010802:Phylogeny; D011173:Portraits as Topic