Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?
Predicting the depth of the most recent common ancestor of a random sample of $k$ species: the impact of phylogenetic tree shape
We consider the following question: how close to the ancestral root of a phylogenetic tree is the most recent common ancestor of $k$ species randomly sampled from the tips of the tree? For trees having shapes predicted by the Yule-Harding model, it is known that the most recent common ancestor …