Estimating primate divergence times by using conditioned birth-and-death processes

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 278-285

  Wilkinson, Richard D ^a   Tavaré, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditioned birth and death process; Inference from the fossil record; Primate divergence time; Size biased trees

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; PRIMATE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 67349228761     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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