One of the strengths of the maximum likelihood method of phylogenetic estimation is the
ease with which hypotheses can be formulated and tested. Maximum likelihood analysis of …

1. An oft-cited view, derived principally from the writings of Gordon L. Walls, is that relatively
few mammalian species have a capacity for colour vision. This review has evaluated that …

Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

Biologists often compare average phenotypes of groups of species defined cladistically or
on behavioral, ecological, or physiological criteria (eg, carnivores vs. herbivores, social vs …

We have developed a World Wide Web (WWW) version of the sequence retrieval system
Query: WWW-Query. This server allows to query nucleotide sequence banks in the …

Simple statistical methods for testing the molecular evolutionary clock hypothesis are
developed which can be applied to both nucleotide and amino acid sequences. These …

The study of evolution at the molecular level has given the subject of evolutionary biology a
new significance. Phylogenetic'trees' of gene sequences are a powerful tool for recovering …

One of the most important aspects of mitochondrial (mt) genome evolution in Metazoa is
constancy of size and gene content of mtDNA, whose plasticity is maintained through a great …

According to the received tradition, the language used to to refer to natural kinds in scientific
discourse remains stable even as theories about these kinds are refined. In this illuminating …

In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …