What is it about?
This paper shows that any phylogenetic method can be statistically inconsistent, that there is no way to know whether a given empirical result is inconsistent or not, and that therefore the problem of inconsistency is not worth worrying about.
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Why is it important?
Statistical inconsistency has been the main justification for model-based approaches to phylogenetic inference. Now the proponents of those methods will need to find a different reason to reject parsimony.
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This page is a summary of: Statistical consistency and phylogenetic inference: a brief review, Cladistics, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/cla.12216.
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