Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Challenges in estimating species age from phylogenetic trees
Carlos Calderón del Cid, Torsten Hauffe, Juan D. Carrillo…·Daniele Silvestro
The paper shows that estimating species age from phylogenetic trees is error-prone due to sampling biases and speciation assumptions, and proposes a probabilistic model to improve accuracy.
DOI 10.1111/geb.13890