Comparative Methods I (Glor)

Testing comparative hypotheses about adaptation, ecology, and functional biology is one of the main applications of phylogenetic methods. We're going to begin our consideration of comparative methods by discussing the application of these methods to discretely-coded characters. The links below provide a number of resources to help you learn about comparative analyses of discretely-coded characters.

I. Ancestral Reconstruction & Phylogenetic Signal with Discretely-coded Characters
Slides from lecture on ancestral reconstruction of discrete characters: Ancestral_Reconstruction.pdf
Ancestral reconstruction and phylogenetic signal exercise: Character_EvolutionI.pdf
Datasets for the exercise above (and below): Character_Evolution_Data.zip

II. Testing Character Correlations Among Discretely-coded Characters
Slides from (unpresented) lecture on testing character correlation for discrete characters: Discrete_Character_Correlation.pdf
Testing hypotheses of character evolution and character correlation exercise: Character_EvolutionII.pdf