Phylogenetic comparative methods
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Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) use information on the historical relationships of lineages (phylogenies) to test evolutionary hypotheses. The comparative method has a long history in evolutionary biology; indeed, Charles Darwin used differences and similarities between species as a major source of evidence in The Origin of Species. However, the fact that closely related lineages share many traits and trait combinations as a result of the process of descent with modification means that lineages are not independent. This realization inspired the development of explicitly phylogenetic comparative methods.
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See also
- Allometry
- Behavioral ecology
- Biodiversity
- Bioinformatics
- Cladistics
- Comparative anatomy
- Comparative method in linguistics
- Comparative physiology
- Computational phylogenetics
- Disk-covering method
- Ecophysiology
- Evolutionary neurobiology
- Evolutionary physiology
- Generalized least squares (GLS)
- Generalized linear model
- Joe Felsenstein
- Mark Pagel
- Maximum likelihood
- Maximum parsimony
- Paul H. Harvey
- Phylogenetics
- Roderic D.M. Page
- Sexual selection
- Statistics
- Systematics
- Theodore Garland, Jr.
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