Will be posted as we go :)

01/20 Lecture 01: Intro (pdf)

01/22 Lecture 02: tree thinking –> no slides

01/27 Lecture 03: Parsimony I (pdf)

01/29 Lecture 04: Parsimony II (pdf)

02/03 Lecture 05: Parsimony statistics (pdf)

01/05 Lecture 06: Hypothesis testing (pdf)

02/10 Lecture 07: Data combinability –> no new slides

02/12 Lecture 08: Gene duplication (pdf not yet available); gene duplication challenge (pdf)

02/17 Lecture 09: Gene trees - Species trees I (pdf)

02/19 Lecture 10: Gene trees - Species trees II (pdf)

02/24 Lecture 11: Maximum Likelihood I (pdf)

02/26 Lecture 12: Maximum Likelihood II (pdf)

03/03 Lecture 13: Maximum Likelihood III (pdf)

03/05 Lecture 14: Paper discussion

03/10 Lecture 15: Molecular dating (pdf)

03/12 Lecture 16: Paper discussion Hibbett 2001

03/14 – 03/22: Spring Break :)

03/24 Lecture 17: Relaxed clocks (no new ppt)

03/26 Lecture 18: Bayesian Inference I

04/07 Lecture 20: Bayesian Inference II

04/09 Lecture 21: Concordance Analysis (Cécile Ané)

04/14 Lecture 22: Species Trees

04/16 Lecture 23: Comparative Methods I (discrete)

04/23 Lecture 24: Comparative Methods II (continous)

04/30 Lecture 25: Causal Hypotheses

05/07 Lecture 26: Key Innovations

website: nicacho@wisc.edu