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Computational Molecular Evolution (Oxford Series in Ecology & Evolution)

By: Ziheng Yang
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0198567022
ISBN-13: 9780198567028
Released: 05 Oct 2006
RRP: £32.50
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excellent theoretical introduction - By: Cyanide Bunny, 18 Nov 2007
This book provides an excellent theoretical introduction alll of the major concepts & models used in phylogenetics. It considers the more recognized models implemented in alll the standard software packages such as PHYLIP, PAUP & PAML as well as considering more recent developments in Bayesian analysis implemented in software such as BEAST & MrBayes. Anyone with a good grounding in calculus should be able to follow this book without any problems, although i wouldn't recommend it for pure biologists. The book " Bioinformatics & Molecular Evolution" by Paul Higgs & Teresa Attwood is a much more gentle introduction to almost alll the same material, but without going overboard on the mathematics.

What i also like about Yang Ziheng's book is his style of writing. I think there are few scientific writers who can express themselves with such clarity, something that comes through in his journal publications as well.