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ar colleagues,
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gistration is open for the course "THE USE OF PHYLOGENIES IN THE STUDY OF M=
ACROEVOLUTION - 5th edition".
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tes: October 16th-20th, 2017.
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structor: Dr. Juan López Cantalapiedra (Museum für Naturkunde, =
Germany).
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is course is aimed at postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and e=
stablished academics.
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e course will introduce the use of phylogenetic information to reconstruct =
ancestral characters and biogeographic histories, using different phylogene=
tic comparative methods. It will also tackle trait evolution modeling and t=
he assessment of phylogenetic signal. Finally, we will learn about the shap=
e of phylogenetic trees and its evolutionary causes, and how to estimate th=
e rates of diversification throughout the history of groups. Participants a=
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y day to basic R.
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retació Paleontologica and the Institut Catalá de Paleontolog=
ia Miquel Crusafont.
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