Large morphomatrices provide a wealth of information, including trivial phylogenetic signals. The post explores the coherence of the signal from the best-covered OTUs (via non-parametric bootstrapping) and shows that there are little differences between parsimony (preferred method in palaeontology) and distance-based or maximum likelihood. And how the simplest and quickest of (phylogenetic) netwo...

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University of Wisconsin-Madison write-up

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National Geographic

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