Dated Ancestral Trees from Binary Trait Data and Their Application to the Diversification of Languages
由二元性状数据推断带年代的祖先树及其语言分化应用
Summary Binary trait data record the presence or absence of distinguishing traits in individuals. We treat the problem of estimating ancestral trees with time depth from binary trait data. Simple analysis of such data is problematic. Each homology class of traits has a unique birth event on the tree, and the birth event of a trait that is visible at the leaves is biased towards the leaves. We propose a model-based analysis of such data and present a Markov chain Monte Carlo…