A phylogenetic model selection test to quantify the evidence for the Universal Common Ancestry (UCA) of life forms was proposed recently (Theobald 2010a), based on the comparison of the statistical su
Values are comparing our best phylogeny against phylogenies where proposed relationships were constrained. None of the hypotheses can be rejected, since all p values are above the 0.05 threshold. wkh
aΔ Likelihood: differences between the likelihood of a constrained tree and the maximum likelihood tree.bAU: approximately unbiased test (p-values). Values for topologies significantly rejected at the
The “Hypothesis” column indicates the constraints introduced in the phylogenetic analysis. The “Rank” column shows the order of each constraint compared with the ML tree inferred from our combined dat