Theoretical work in Berkeley has been less widely noted. It started with the JukesCantor distance and the stochastic model derived from it. Shortly afterward, Berkeley's famous statistician Jerzy Neyman became involved, owing to contact with Allan Wilson. He was the first to describe maximum likelihood phylogeny methods for molecular sequence data, a development for which I often mistakenly get the credit.Taking Variation of Evolutionary Rates Between Sites into Account in Inferring Phylogenies -- Joseph Felsenstein at the Journal of Molecular Evolution, Volume 53, Numbers 4-5
Friday, April 13, 2012
The first to describe phylogenetic maximum likelihood methods, according to Joe Felsenstein
(correction: my title is incomplete, it should include for molecular sequence data :)
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Your title is a bit inaccurate. The first people to discuss phylogenetic maximum likelihood methods were Edwards and Cavalli-Sforza in 1964. Jerzy Neyman was the first to describe them for molecular sequence data.
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