The first annual AnthroTree Workshop aims to make phylogenetic methods more accessible
by providing hands-on experience to evolutionary anthropologists interested in learning
phylogenetic comparative methods.
The three-day course will feature instructors from around the world, and will cover
introductions to a wide array of topics, including:
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Inferring and interpreting phylogenetic trees
Studying correlated evolution using independent contrasts and GLS
Reconstructing ancestral states
Investigating the factors that influence speciation and extinction
Incorporating geographic information into comparative analyses
Computer programs and packages in Mesquite, R, and BayesTraits
Examples from all fields of evolutionary anthropology
In addition to lectures, worked examples and exercises, participants will bring a dataset of
their choice to work on with the instructors at the workshop.
Quentin Atkinson, University of Oxford
Bayesian phylogenetics and linguistics
Laura Fortunato, Santa Fe Institute
Bayesian comparative methods in BayesTraits
Kate Jones, Institute of Zoology
Comparative analyses in R
Jason Kamilar, Yale University
Independent contrasts in Mesquite
Roger Mundry, MPI-EVA Leipzig
Statistics and phylogenetics in R
Charles Nunn, Harvard University
Phylogenetic signal and diversification rates