Early Education: Philadelphia public schools, Central High School
B. S. (Honors) Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1964
National Institutes of Health Trainee (Genetics Training Grant), University of Chicago, 1964 - 1967
Ph. D., Department of Zoology, University of Chicago, 1968
National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1967 - 1968

Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 1967 - 1973 (on leave 1967-1968)
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1973 - 1978
Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978-2001
Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2001-present
Adjunct Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1981 - present
Adjunct Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1990 - 2002
Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2002-2003 (on joint basis with Genome Sciences)
Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2003-present (on joint basis with Genome Sciences)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 2003-present
Sabbatical leave at Department of Genetics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1982 - June 1983
Coordinator, Program in Computational Molecular Biology, University of Washington, September 2001 - September 2006.

Associate Editor, Genetics, June - December, 1974
Associate Editor, Theoretical Population Biology, January, 1975 - December, 1986, January, 1995 - December, 1998, January, 2003 - present
Associate Editor, Evolution, January, 1978 - December, 1979, and January, 1981 - December, 1983
Associate Editor, Journal of Classification, January, 1984 - present
Member of editorial committee, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, January 1982 - December, 1986
Vice President II, Society for the Study of Evolution, 1986
Member, Society for the Study of Evolution, committee to nominate an editor for Evolution, 1988
Associate, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 1988-2007. Member of Advisory committee of program, 2002-2004, Chair of Advisory committee, 2005-2007.
Member, NIH NIGMS Genbank Advisory Committee, 1989 - 1993
Member, International Advisory Committee for Nucleic Acid Sequence Databases, 1991 - ?? (the committee effectively ceased meeting in 1993).
Member of editorial board, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, January 1992 - present
Member of editorial board, Journal of Molecular Evolution, January 1993 - present
President, Society for the Study of Evolution, 1993 (President-Elect, 1992, Retiring President, 1994).
Member of editorial board, Journal of Computational Biology, January 1994 - present
Honorary member of editorial board, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, September, 2005 - present

Elected to membership, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
Sewall Wright Award, American Society of Naturalists, 1993 (a biographical sketch of me by Monty Slatkin appeared in American Naturalist in January, 1995). (JSTOR)
Elected to membership, National Academy of Sciences, 1999
Weldon Memorial Prize, University of Oxford, 2000
President's Award for Excellence in Systematics, Society of Systematic Biology, 2002
Honorary degree of Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh, 2005
Darwin-Wallace Medal, Linnean Society of London, 2008

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1. (R. C. Lewontin and J. Felsenstein) 1965. The robustness of homogeneity tests in 2 x N tables. Biometrics 21: 19-33. (JSTOR)
2. 1965. The effect of linkage on directional selection. Genetics 52: 349-363. (PDF)
3. (Walter F. Bodmer and Joseph Felsenstein) 1967. Linkage and selection: theoretical analysis of the deterministic two locus random mating model. Genetics 57: 237-265.(PDF)
4. (James F. Crow and Joseph Felsenstein) 1968. The effect of assortative mating on the genetic composition of a population. Eugenics Quarterly 15: 85-97.
5. 1971. On the biological significance of the cost of gene substitution. American Naturalist 105: 1-11. (JSTOR)
6. (Arno Motulsky, George R. Fraser, and Joseph Felsenstein) 1971. Public health and long-term genetic implications of intrauterine diagnosis and selective abortion. Birth Defects - Original Article Series 7 (5): 22-32.
7. 1971. Inbreeding and variance effective numbers in populations with overlapping generations. Genetics 68: 581-597. (PDF)
8. 1971. The rate of loss of multiple alleles in finite haploid populations. Theoretical Population Biology 2: 391-403.
9. 1972. The substitutional load in a finite population. Heredity 28: 57-69.
10. 1973. Maximum likelihood estimation of evolutionary trees from continuous characters. American Journal of Human Genetics 25: 471-492.
11. 1973. Maximum likelihood and minimum-steps methods for estimating evolutionary trees from data on discrete characters. Systematic Zoology 22: 240-249. (JSTOR)
12. 1974. Uncorrelated genetic drift of gene frequencies and linkage disequilibrium in some models of linked overdominant polymorphisms. Genetical Research 24: 281-294.
13. 1974. The evolutionary advantage of recombination. Genetics 78: 737-756. (PDF)
14. 1975. A pain in the torus: some difficulties with models of isolation by distance. American Naturalist 109: 359-368.(JSTOR)
15. 1975. (Glenn Sharrock and Joseph Felsenstein). Finding all monothetic subsets of a taxonomic group. Systematic Zoology 24: 373-377. (JSTOR)
16. 1975. Genetic drift in clines which are maintained by migration and natural selection. Genetics 81: 191-207. (PDF)
17. 1976. (Joseph Felsenstein and Shozo Yokoyama). The evolutionary advantage of recombination. II. Individual selection for recombination. Genetic 83: 845-859 (Corrigendum in vol. 85 p. 372 1977). (PDF) (PDF of Corrigendum)
18. 1976. (U. Francke, J. Felsenstein, S. M. Gartler, B. R. Migeon, J. Dancis, J. E. Seegmiller, B. Bakay, and W. L. Nyhan). The occurrence of new mutants in the X-linked recessive Lesch-Nyhan disease. American Journal of Human Genetics 28: 123-137 (Erratum, vol. 28, p. 311).
19. 1976. The theoretical population genetics of variable selection and migration. Annual Review of Genetics 10: 253-280. (PDF)
20. 1977. (U. Francke, J. Felsenstein, S. M. Gartler, W. L. Nyhan, and J. E. Seegmiller). Answer to criticism of Lalouel and Morton. American Journal of Human Genetics 29: 307-310.
21. 1977. Multivariate normal genetic models with a finite number of loci. pp. 227-245 in Proceedings of the International Conference on Quantitative Genetics, August 16-21, 1976. edited by E. Pollak, O. Kempthorne, and T. B. Bailey, Jr., Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa.
22. 1978. Macroevolution in a model ecosystem. American Naturalist 112: 177-195. (JSTOR)
23. 1978. (Shozo Yokoyama and Joseph Felsenstein). Kin selection in an altruistic trait considered as a quantitative character. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 75: 420-422. (JSTOR)
24. 1978. The number of evolutionary trees. Systematic Zoology 27: 27-33 (Correction, vol. 30, p. 122, 1981) (JSTOR) (JSTOR of Correction)
25. 1978. Cases in which parsimony or compatibility methods will be positively misleading. Systematic Zoology 27: 401-410. (Also reprinted as pp. 663-674 in Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, An Anthology, edited by Elliott Sober, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984.) (JSTOR)
26. 1979. Alternative methods of phylogenetic inference and their interrelationship. Systematic Zoology 28: 49-62. (JSTOR)
27. 1979. r- and K-selection in a completely chaotic population model. American Naturalist 113: 499-510. (JSTOR)
28. 1979. Isolation by distance: reply to Lalouel and Morton. Annals of Human Genetics 42: 523-527.
29. 1979. A mathematically tractable family of genetic mapping functions with different amounts of interference. Genetics 91: 769-775 (Corrigendum, vol. 92, p. 685). (PDF) (PDF of Corrigendum)
30. 1979. Excursions along the interface between disruptive and stabilizing selection. Genetics 93: 773-795. (PDF)
31. 1981. Skepticism towards Santa Rosalia, or Why are there so few kinds of animals? Evolution 35: 124-138. (JSTOR)
32. 1981. Bibliography of Theoretical Population Genetics. Dowden, Hutchinson, and Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. (download bibliography)
33. 1981. (Stanley Sawyer and Joseph Felsenstein). A continuous migration model with stable demography. Journal of Mathematical Biology 11: 193-205.
34. 1981. Continuous-genotype models and assortative mating. Theoretical Population Biology 19: 341-357.
35. 1981. Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: a maximum likelihood approach. Journal of Molecular Evolution 17: 368-376. (PDF)
36. 1981. A likelihood approach to character weighting and what it tells us about parsimony and compatibility. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 16: 183-196.
37. 1981. Evolutionary trees from gene frequencies and quantitative characters: finding maximum likelihood estimates. Evolution 35: 1229-1242. (JSTOR)
38. 1982. (J. Felsenstein, S. Sawyer, and R. Kochin). An efficient method for matching nucleic acid sequences. Nucleic Acids Research 10: 133-139. (PDF)
39. 1982. How can we infer geography and history from gene frequencies? Journal of Theoretical Biology 96: 9-20.
40. 1982. Numerical methods for inferring evolutionary trees. Quarterly Review of Biology 57: 379-404 1982. (JSTOR)
41. 1983. (S. Sawyer and J. Felsenstein). Isolation by distance in a hierarchically clustered population. Journal of Applied Probability 20: 1-10. (JSTOR)
42. 1983. Inferring evolutionary trees from DNA sequences. pp. 133-150 in Statistical Analysis of DNA Sequence Data, edited by B. S. Weir. M. Dekker, New York.
43. 1983. (editor) Numerical Taxonomy: Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute. NATO Advanced Study Institute Series G (Ecological Sciences), No. 1. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York.
44. 1983. Methods for inferring phylogenies: a statistical view. pp. 315-334 in Numerical Taxonomy: Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute, edited by J. Felsenstein. NATO Advanced Study Institute Series G (Ecological Sciences), No. 1. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York.
45. 1983. Computers in systematics: one perspective. pp. 590-609 in Numerical Taxonomy: Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute, edited by J. Felsenstein. NATO Advanced Study Institute Series G (Ecological Sciences), No. 1. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York.
46. 1983. Statistical inference of phylogenies. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (General) 146: 246-272. (JSTOR)).
47. 1983. Parsimony in systematics: biological and statistical issues. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 14: 313-333. (JSTOR).
48. 1984. Distance methods for inferring phylogenies: a justification. Evolution 38: 16-24. (JSTOR)
49. 1984. The statistical inference approach to inferring evolutionary trees and what it tells us about parsimony and compatibility. pp. 169-191 in Cladistics: perspectives on the reconstruction of evolutionary history, edited by T. Duncan and T. F. Stuessy. Columbia University Press, New York.
50. 1985. Phylogenies and the comparative method. Amer. Naturalist 125: 1-15. (JSTOR)
51. 1985. Recombination and sex: is Maynard Smith necessary? pp. 209-219 in Evolution: Essays in honour of John Maynard Smith, edited by P. J. Greenwood, P. H. Harvey, and M. Slatkin. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
52. 1985. Confidence limits on phylogenies with a molecular clock. Systematic Zoology 34: 152-161. (JSTOR)
53. 1985. Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39: 783-791. (JSTOR)
54. 1985. Phylogenies from gene frequencies: a statistical problem. Systematic Zoology 34: 300-311. (JSTOR)
55. 1986. Distance methods: reply to Farris. Cladistics 2: 130-143.
56. 1986. Population differences in quantitative characters and gene frequencies: a comment on papers by Lewontin and Rogers. American Naturalist 127: 731-732. (JSTOR)
57. (Felsenstein, J. and E. Sober). 1986. Parsimony and likelihood: an exchange. Systematic Zoology 35: 617-626. (JSTOR)
58. (Cavender, J. A. and J. Felsenstein). 1987. Invariants of phylogenies in a simple case with discrete states. Journal of Classification 4: 57-71. (PDF)
59. 1987. Sex and the evolution of recombination. pp. 74-86 in The Evolution of Sex, An Examination of Current Ideas, edited by R. E. Michod and B. R. Levin. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
60. 1987. Estimation of hominoid phylogeny from a DNA hybridization data set. Journal of Molecular Evolution 26: 123-131. (PDF)
61. 1988. The detection of phylogeny. pp. 112-127 in Prospects in Systematics, edited by D. L. Hawksworth. Systematics Association, London.
62. 1988. Perils of molecular introspection (News and Views). Nature 335: 118.
63. 1988. Phylogenies and quantitative characters. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 19: 445-471. (JSTOR)
64. 1988. Phylogenies from molecular sequences: inference and reliability. Annual Review of Genetics 22: 521-565. (PDF)
65. 1989. PHYLIP - Phylogeny Inference Package (Version 3.2). Cladistics 5: 164-166.
66. 1989. Alan Robertson's contributions to population genetics. pp. 3-11 in Evolution and Animal Breeding. Reviews on Molecular and Quantitative Approaches in Honour of Alan Robertson, edited by W. G. Hill and T. F. C. MacKay. C. A. B. International, Wallingford, U.K.
67. 1990. (Golding, B. and J. Felsenstein). A maximum likelihood approach to the detection of selection from phylogeny. Journal of Molecular Evolution 31: 511-523. (PDF)
68. 1991. (J. L. Thorne, H. Kishino and J. Felsenstein). An evolutionary model for maximum likelihood alignment of DNA sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 33: 114-124. (PDF)
69. 1991. Counting phylogenetic invariants in some simple cases. Journal of Theoretical Biology 152: 357-376.
70. 1991. Allan Charles Wilson (1934-1991). Nature 353: 19.
71. 1992. (J. L. Thorne, H. Kishino and J. Felsenstein). Inching toward reality: an improved likelihood model of sequence evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution 34: 3-16. (PDF)
72. 1992. Phylogenies from restriction sites: a maximum likelihood approach. Evolution 46: 159-173. (JSTOR)
73. 1992. Estimating effective population size from samples of sequences: inefficiency of pairwise and segregating sites as compared to phylogenetic estimates. Genetical Research 59: 139-147.
74. 1992. Estimating effective population size from samples of sequences: a bootstrap Monte Carlo approach. Genetical Research 60: 209-220.
75. 1993. (Archie, J. and J. Felsenstein). The number of evolutionary steps on random and minimum length trees for random evolutionary data. Theoretical Population Biology 43: 52-79.
76. 1993. (J. Felsenstein and H. Kishino). Is there something wrong with the bootstrap on phylogenies? A reply to Hillis and Bull. Systematic Biology 42: 193-200. (JSTOR)
77. 1994. (M. K. Kuhner and J. Felsenstein). A simulation comparison of phylogeny algorithms under equal and unequal evolutionary rates. Molecular Biology and Evolution 11: 459-468 (Erratum 12: 525 (1995). (PDF) (PDF of erratum)
78. 1995. (M. K. Kuhner, J. Yamato, and J. Felsenstein). Estimating effective population size and mutation rate from sequence data using Metropolis-Hastings sampling. Genetics 140: 1421-1430. (PDF)
79. 1996. (J. Felsenstein and G. A. Churchill). A hidden Markov model approach to variation among sites in rate of evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13: 93-104. (PDF)
80. 1996. Inferring phylogenies from protein sequences by parsimony, distance, and likelihood methods. pp. 418-427 in Computer Methods for Macromolecular Sequence Analysis, edited by R. F. Doolittle. Methods in Enzymology, vol. 266. Academic Press, Orlando, Florida.
81. (Swofford, D. L., J. L. Thorne, J. Felsenstein, and B. M. Wiegmann). 1996. The topology-dependent permutation test for monophyly does not test for monophyly. Systematic Biology 45: 573-577. (JSTOR)
82. 1997. (M. K. Kuhner, J. Yamato, and J. Felsenstein). Applications of Metropolis-Hastings genealogy sampling. pp. 183-192 in Progress in Population Genetics and Human Evolution, edited by P. Donnelly and S. Tavare. IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, volume 87. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
83. 1997. Population differentiation and evolutionary processes. pp. 31-43 in Genetic Effects of Straying of Non-Native Hatchery Fish into Natural Populations, edited by W. Stewart Grant. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-30. U. S. Department of Commerce. (The complete text and figures are also available on the Web at
    http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/pubs/TM/tm30/felsenstein.html)
84. 1997. An alternating least squares approach to inferring phylogenies from pairwise distances. Systematic Biology 46: 101-111. (JSTOR)
85. 1998. (M. K. Kuhner, J. Yamato and J. Felsenstein). 1998. Maximum likelihood estimation of population growth rates based on the coalescent Genetics 149: 429-434. (HTML) (PDF)
86. 1999. (Rodrigo, A. G. and J. Felsenstein). Coalescent approaches to HIV population genetics. pp. 233-272 in The Evolution of HIV, edited by K. A. Crandall. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
87. 1999. (P. Beerli and J. Felsenstein). Maximum-likelihood estimation of migration rates and effective population numbers in two populations using a coalescent approach. Genetics 152: 763-773. (HTML) (PDF)
88. 1999. (Felsenstein, J., M. K. Kuhner, J. Yamato, and P. Beerli). Likelihoods on coalescents: a Monte Carlo sampling approach to inferring parameters from population samples of molecular data. pp. 163-185 in Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics, edited by Francoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch. IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, volume 33. Institute of Mathematical Statistics and American Mathematical Society, Hayward, California.
89. 2000. From population genetics to evolutionary genetics: a view through the trees. pp. 609-627 in Evolutionary Genetics: From Molecules to Morphology, vol. 1, edited by R. S. Singh and C. B. Krimbas. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
90. 2000. (M. K. Kuhner, P. Beerli, J. Yamato, and J. Felsenstein). Usefulness of single nucleotide polymorphism data for estimating population parameters. Genetics 156: 439-447. (HTML) (PDF)
91. 2000. Comment in discussion of paper by M. Stephens and P. Donnelly "Inference in molecular population genetics," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 62: 605-655. (JSTOR)
92. 2000. (Kuhner, M. K. and J. Felsenstein). Sampling among haplotype resolutions in a coalescent-based genealogy sampler. Genetic Epidemiology 19 (Supplement 1): S15-S21. (PDF)
93. 2000. (Kuhner, M. K., J. Yamato and J. Felsenstein). Maximum likelihood estimation of recombination rates from population data. Genetics 156: 1393-1401. (HTML) (PDF)
94. 2001. (Beerli, P. and J. Felsenstein). Maximum likelihood estimation of a migration matrix and effective population sizes in n subpopulations by using a coalescent approach. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98: 4563-4568. (JSTOR)
95. 2001. The troubled growth of statistical phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 50: 465-467. (JSTOR)
96. 2001. Taking variation of evolutionary rates between sites into account in inferring phylogenies. Journal of Molecular Evolution 53: 447-455. (PDF)
97. 2002. Quantitative characters, phylogenies, and morphometrics. pp. 27-44 in Morphology, Shape, and Phylogenetics, edited by N. MacLeod. Systematics Association Special Volume Series 64. Taylor and Francis, London.
98. 2002. Contrasts for a within-species comparative method. pp. 118-129 in Modern Developments in Theoretical Population Genetics, edited by M. Slatkin and M. Veuille. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
99. 2004. Inferring Phylogenies. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
100. 2005. Using the quantitative genetic threshold model for inferences between and within species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 360: 1427-1434. (HTML)
101. 2006. Accuracy of coalescent likelihood estimates: Do we need more sites, more sequences, or more loci? Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 691-700. (HTML) (PDF)
102. 2007. Trees of genes in populations. pp. 3-29 in Reconstructing Evolution. New Mathematical and Computational Advances, ed. O. Gascuel and M. Steel. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
103. 2007. Has natural selection been refuted? The arguments of William Dembski. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 27 (3-4): 20-26.
104. 2008. Comparative methods with sampling error and within-species variation: contrasts revisited and revised. American Naturalist 171: 713-725. (HTML) (PDF)

1. 1968. Effects of linkage and epistasis on fixation probabilities. Proceedings of the XII International Congress of Genetics, Volume II, p. 145.
2. 1969. The effective size of a population with overlapping generations. Genetics 61: s18.
3. 1971. The evolutionary advantage of recombination. Genetics 68: s19 .
4. 1973. Estimation of number of loci controlling variation in a quantitative character. Proc. 13th International Congress of Genetics. Genetics 74: (2, part 2) s79.
5. 1975. The relationship between theory and data in population genetics. Genetics 80: s4.
6. 1975. Discussion of preceding papers. pp. 106-131 in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Numerical Taxonomy, edited by G. F. Estabrook. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco.
7. 1984. Confidence limits on most parsimonious phylogenies under a molecular clock. Genetics 107: s31.
8. 1999. Coalescents, phylogenies and likelihoods. Biological Bulletin 196: 343-344.

1. 1971. Population theory (Review of Mathematical Topics in Population Genetics, ed K. Kojima). Science 171: 562. (JSTOR))
2. 1972. Reply to Turner's letter. American Naturalist 106: 672. (JSTOR)
3. 1972. Review of Theoretical Aspects of Population Genetics , by M. Kimura and T. Ohta. Quarterly Review of Biology 47: 333-334. (JSTOR)
4. 1972. Review of A Primer of Population Biology, by E. O. Wilson and W. H. Bossert. American Journal of Human Genetics 24: 607-608.
5. 1972. Review of Probability Models and Statistical Methods in Genetics, by R. C. Elandt-Johnson. American Journal of Human Genetics 24: 357.
6. 1973. Review of The Assessment of Population Affinities in Man, edited by J. S. Weiner and J. Huizinga. American Journal of Human Genetics 25: 259-260.
7. 1973. Review of Polymorphisms with Linked Loci, by V. Arunachalam and A. R. G. Owen. Quarterly Review of Biology 48: 30. (JSTOR)
8. 1974. Review of Numerical Taxonomy, by P. H. A. Sneath and R. R. Sokal. American Scientist 62: 602.
9. 1974. Population Genetics from France. (Review of The Genetic Structure of Populations, by A. Jacquard). Science 186: 1028. (JSTOR)
10. 1975. Review of Genetic Structure of Populations, edited by N. E. Morton. American Journal of Human Genetics 27: 125-126.
11. 1975. Review of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, by R. C. Lewontin. Evolution 29: 587-590. (JSTOR)
12. 1976. Review of Molecular Population Genetics and Evolution, by M. Nei. American Journal of Human Genetics 28: 303-304.
13. 1977. Review of First Course in Population Genetics, by C. C. Li. Quarterly Review of Biology 52: 410-411. (JSTOR)
14. 1977. Review of Human Evolutionary Trees, by E. A. Thompson. Quarterly Review of Biology 52: 231. (JSTOR)
15. 1978. Review of Evolution, by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Francisco J. Ayala, G. Ledyard Stebbins, and James W. Valentine. American Scientist 66: 225-226.
16. 1979. Quantitative genetics (review of Quantitative Genetic Variation, ed, James N. Thompson and J. M. Thoday). Science 206: 549. (JSTOR)
17. 1980. A view of population genetics (review of Mathematical Population Genetics, by Warren J. Ewens). Science 208: 1253. (JSTOR)
18. 1981. Review of The Geometry of Population Genetics, by Ethan Akin. Quarterly Review of Biology 56: 76. (JSTOR)
19. 1982. A theme that will be repeated (review of Evolution and Variation in Multigene Families, by Tomoko Ohta). Evolution 36: 206.
20. 1982. Review of The Mathematical Theory of Quantitative Genetics, by M.G. Bulmer. Quarterly Review of Biology 57: 68. (JSTOR)
21. 1983. Another beacon in the fog (review of Phylogenetics: The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics, by E. O. Wiley). Quarterly Review of Biology 58: 60-62. (JSTOR)
22. 1983. Review of Evolution in Age-Structured Populations by B. Charlesworth. Biometrics 39: 818-819.
23. 1984. Comparatively better (review of The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating, by Mark Ridley). Nature 308: 565.
24. 1985. Review of Genetics of Populations, by Philip W. Hedrick. Quarterly Review of Biology 60: 77-78. (JSTOR)
25. 1986. Waiting for Post-Neo-Darwin (review of Evolutionary Theory: Paths into the Future by J. W. Pollard). Evolution 40: 883-889. (JSTOR)
26. 1986. Evolution in the twentieth century (review of Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology by W. B. Provine, and Evolution - Selected Papers by Sewall Wright). Nature 324: 175-176.
27. 1986. Review of Taxonomic analysis in biology: computers, models, and databases by Lois A. Abbott, Frank A. Bisby, and David J. Rogers. Quarterly Review of Biology 61: 587. (JSTOR)
28. 1987. Access to theory (review of books by F. B. Christiansen and M. W. Feldman and by J. F. Crow). Nature 326: 219-220.
29. 1987. Comment in discussion of paper by C. F. J. Wu, Jackknife, bootstrap and other resampling methods in regression analysis. Annals of Statistics 14: 1261-1295 (comment is pp. 1304-1305). (JSTOR)
30. 1987. Comment (in discussion of paper by D. Barry and J. A. Hartigan). Statistical Science 2: 208-209. (JSTOR)
31. 1987. Molecular evolution in search of itself (review of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics by M. Nei). Cell 51: 343-344.
32. 1988. Further selection (review of A primer of population genetics, 2nd edition, by D. L. Hartl, and Population genetics: basic principles by D. P. Doolittle). Nature 332: 182.
33. 1989. Mathematics vs. evolution (review of Mathematical Evolutionary Theory, edited by Marcus W. Feldman). Science 246: 941-942. (JSTOR))
34. 1989. Data basis (review of Computational molecular biology by A. M. Lesk and Biomolecular data. A resource in transition, by R. R. Colwell). Trends in Genetics 5: 419-420.
35. 1991. Review of Reconstructing the past: parsimony, evolution, and inference by Elliott Sober. Journal of Classification 8: 122-125.
36. 1991. Review of Principles of Population Genetics, by D. L. Hartl and A. G. Clark. American Scientist 69: 464.
37. 1992. Review of Genes in Populations, by Eliot B. Spiess. American Journal of Human Genetics 51: 224.
38. 1992. Review of Selected Genetics Papers of J.B.S. Haldane, edited by K. R. Dronamraju. Genetical Research 60: 153-154.
39. 1992. Review of Proceedings of the Michigan Morphometrics Workshop, edited by F. J. Rohlf and F. L. Bookstein. Quarterly Review of Biology 67: 418-419. (JSTOR)
40. 1993. Unspoken Disagreements (review of Phylogenetic Analysis of DNA Sequences, edited by Michael M. Miyamoto and Joel Cracraft). Cladistics 8: 191-196. (PDF)
41. 2004. An ancestor's influence (review of Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry by Michael Bulmer). Nature Genetics 36: 1031. (HTML) (PDF)
42. 2006. What mathematicians will see of phylogenies (review of Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogenies, edited by Olivier Gascuel). Evolution 60: 872-874. (HTML) (PDF)
43. 2006. Review of Evolutionary Theory: Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations by Sean H. Rice. Quarterly Review of Biology 81: 171-172. (HTML) (PDF)
44. 2008. Bootstrap confidence levels for phylogenetic trees. Introduction. pp. 336-337 in The Science of Bradley Efron, ed. C. N. Morris, and R. Tibshirani. Introduction to Chapter 17. Springer, New York.
45. 2008. Review of Computational Molecular Evolution by Ziheng Yang. Quarterly Review of Biology 83: 205-206. (HTML)
    Computer Program Distribution

    PHYLIP, the Phylogeny Inference Package, a package of programs for inferring phylogenies, has been distributed since October 1980. The programs are distributed free by World Wide Web. The programs are distributed in C source code (versions before the spring of 1993 were in Pascal). with extensive documentation in computer-readable form. Other people have helped with earlier distribution of specific precompiled versions for different microcomputers (George D.F. Wilson, then in San Diego, with the DOS version, and Willem Ellis in Amsterdam with the Macintosh version). PHYLIP is the most widely distributed package of phylogeny programs, with about 26,000 registered users.

    LAMARC, a package of programs for Likelihood Analysis by Metropolis Algorithm with Random Coalescents, is distributed by our laboratory (the central person responsible for it is Dr. Mary Kuhner). It is a series of programs in C and C++, currently 4 of them. They are distributed by by World Wide Web, for free, in source code and in Windows and Macintosh executables. The programs implement Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of likelihoods of population samples of nucleotide sequences, electrophoretic markers, and microsatellite data. They estimate population parameters such as the scaled effective population size, migration rates, population growth rates, and recombination rates. There are currently about 1500 registered users.

    Students Trained

    Michael A. Turelli (Ph. D., Biomathematics, 1977)
    Shozo Yokoyama (Ph. D., Biomathematics, 1977)
    J. Bruce Walsh (Ph. D., Genetics, 1983)
    Mark Grote (M.S., Statistics, 1990)
    Jeffrey L. Thorne (Ph. D., Genetics, 1991)
    Lindsey Dubb (Ph. D., Genome Sciences, 2005)

    Postdoctoral Fellows Supervised

    Ruth Shaw, 1984-1987
    Mary Kuhner, 1993-1996
    Emília Martins, 1992-1994
    Peter Beerli, 1994-1996
    Nicolas Salamin, 2003-2004
    

    Current Research Grants

    National Institutes of Health grant R01 GM071639, Phylogeny and genomic inference for quantitative traits, April, 2005 - March 2009. Funding per year (direct costs) $160,000. This research will develop statistical and computational methods using phylogenies (betweens species) and estimates of migration rates (between populations within species) to look for evidence that quantitatively measured traits as well as discrete 0/1 traits are correlated with each other and with measurements of environmental variables. It will also examine the use of large numbers of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) to infer the phylogenetic and/or geographic structure of the species. Some of the resulting programs will be distributed in the PHYLIP package of programs, some separately.

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