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Mark Pagel
Researcher at University of Reading
Publications - 200
Citations - 31101
Mark Pagel is an academic researcher from University of Reading. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phylogenetic tree & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 180 publications receiving 29054 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Pagel include GlaxoSmithKline & Santa Fe Institute.
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The comparative method in evolutionary biology
Paul H. Harvey,Mark Pagel +1 more
TL;DR: The comparative method for studying adaptation why worry about phylogeny?
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Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution
TL;DR: The combination of these phylogenies with powerful new statistical approaches for the analysis of biological evolution is challenging widely held beliefs about the history and evolution of life on Earth.
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Phylogenetic analysis and comparative data: a test and review of evidence
TL;DR: Simulations show λ to be a statistically powerful index for measuring whether data exhibit phylogenetic dependence or not and whether it has low rates of Type I error, which demonstrates that even partial information on phylogeny will improve the accuracy of phylogenetic analyses.
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Detecting Correlated Evolution on Phylogenies: A General Method for the Comparative Analysis of Discrete Characters
TL;DR: A new statistical method is presented for analysing the relationship between two discrete characters that are measured across a group of hierarchically evolved species or populations and assessing whether a pattern of association across the group is evidence for correlated evolutionary change in the two characters.
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Bayesian estimation of ancestral character states on phylogenies.
TL;DR: This work describes how to combine information about the uncertainty of the phylogeny with uncertainty in the estimate of the ancestral state and shows how to reconstruct ancestral states of uncertain nodes using a most-recent-common-ancestor approach.