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James S. Farris
Researcher at American Museum of Natural History
Publications - 116
Citations - 31070
James S. Farris is an academic researcher from American Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phylogenetic tree & Monophyly. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 116 publications receiving 30025 citations. Previous affiliations of James S. Farris include State University of New York System & University of Michigan.
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TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis
TL;DR: Through the use of a number of native commands and a simple but powerful scripting language, TNT allows the user an enormous flexibility in phylogenetic analyses or simulations.
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Testing significance of incongruence
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Quantitative Phyletics and the Evolution of Anurans
Arnold G. Kluge,James S. Farris +1 more
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The retention index and the rescaled consistency index
TL;DR: In this article, two new indices, already in use in Hennig86, and explaining their interpretation are presented. The consistency index, which measures the consistency of a character to a tree, has been widely and successfully employed, but might be capable of some improvement for certain applications.
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Parsimony jackknifing outperforms neighbor-joining
TL;DR: For analysis of large matrices, parsimony jackknifing is hundreds of thousands of times faster than extensive branch‐swapping, yet is better able to screen out poorly‐supported groups.