Estimating Species Trees: Practical and Theoretical Aspects

"I do not disagree, and I therefore hope that this book will stimulate theoreticians to become involved in exploring specific topics in more depth and encourage empiricists to test the available methods by using them in their own data analyses. In this way, phylogenetics should move closer to its ultimate practical goal of producing accurate evolutionary histories for all known organisms." (Systematic Biology, 15 June 2011)