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Autocatalytic sets in a partitioned biochemical network
Joshua I Smith, Mike Steel, Wim Hordijk
In previous work, RAF theory has been developed as a tool for making theoretical progress on the origin of life question, providing insight into the structure and occurrence of sel…
Tree split probabilities determine the branch lengths
Benny Chor, Mike Steel
The evolution of aligned DNA sequence sites is generally modeled by a Markov process operating along the edges of a phylogenetic tree. It is well known that the probability distrib…
Predicting the ancestral character changes in a tree is typically easier than predicting the root state
Olivier Gascuel, Mike Steel
Predicting the ancestral sequences of a group of homologous sequences related by a phylogenetic tree has been the subject of many studies, and numerous methods have been proposed t…
A matroid associated with a phylogenetic tree
Andreas Dress, Katharina Huber, Mike Steel
A (pseudo-)metric on a finite set is said to be a `tree metric' if there is a finite tree with leaf set and non-negative edge weights so that, for all , $D(x…
An Arrow-type result for inferring a species tree from gene trees
Mike Steel
The reconstruction of a central tendency `species tree' from a large number of conflicting gene trees is a central problem in systematic biology. Moreover, it becomes particularly…
Autocatalytic Sets and Biological Specificity
Wim Hordijk, Peter R. Wills, Mike Steel
A universal feature of the biochemistry of any living system is that all the molecules and catalysts that are required for reactions of the system can be built up from an available…
Predicting the loss of phylogenetic diversity under non-stationary diversification models
Amaury Lambert, Mike Steel
For many taxa, the current high rates of extinction are likely to result in a significant loss of biodiversity. The evolutionary heritage of biodiversity is frequently quantified b…
Hide and seek: placing and finding an optimal tree for thousands of homoplasy-rich sequences
Dietrich Radel, Andreas Sand, Mike Steel
Finding optimal evolutionary trees from sequence data is typically an intractable problem, and there is usually no way of knowing how close to optimal the best tree from some searc…
The standard lateral gene transfer model is statistically consistent for pectinate four-taxon trees
Andreas Sand, Mike Steel
Evolutionary events such as incomplete lineage sorting and lateral gene transfer constitute major problems for inferring species trees from gene trees, as they can sometimes lead t…
Time and Knowability in Evolutionary Processes
Elliott Sober, Mike Steel
Historical sciences like evolutionary biology reconstruct past events by using the traces that the past has bequeathed to the present. The Markov Chain Convergence Theorem and the…