This semester a
group of EEB undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and faculty will read and discuss chapters from a new edited volume on Phylogenetic Comparative Methods. The book is available online through the University of Rochester River Campus libraries here.
The group will meet weekly on Tuesdays at 4pm in the graduate student lounge starting next week (24 Feb). If you are interested in attending, click more below to see the reading schedule.
| Date | Chapter | Topic | Page | Leader |
| 24 Feb | 1 | An Introduction to the Phylogenetic Comparative Method | 3 | Bob |
| 3 Mar | 2 | How to Build and Tailor Phylogenies to Interspecific Datasets | 19 | Bort |
| 10 Mar | 5 | A Primer on Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares (PGLS) | 105 | Emerson |
| 17 Mar | 6 | Statistical Issues and Assumptions of PGLS | 131 | Rome |
| 24 Mar | 7 | Uncertainties Due to Within-Species Variation | 157 | Amanda |
| 31 Mar | 8 | An Introduction to Phylogenetic Path Analysis | 201 | Munni |
| 7 Apr | 9 | Phylogenetic Regression for Binary Dependent Variables | 231 | Shannon |
| 14 Apr | 10 | Bayesian Approaches in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods | 263 | Ching‑Ho |
| 21 Apr | 11 | General Quantitative Genetic Methods for Comparative Biology | 287 | Anthony |