Emmanuel Paradis is an evolutionary biologist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Montpellier and Jakarta. He received his Doctorate Diploma in population biology and ecology in 1993 at the University of Montpellier II. He has conducted empirical and theoretical research on birds, mammals, and fish. He worked at the British Trust for Ornithology for three years and at the Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution in Montpellier for seven years where he developed most of the ideas presented in this book. He is the main author and maintainer of the R packages APE (Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution) and PEGAS (Population and Evolutionary Genetics Analysis System).

• Introduction.- First Steps in R for Phylogeneticists.- Phylogenetic Data in R.- Plotting Phylogenies.- Phylogeny Estimation.- Analysis of Macroevolution with Phylogenies.- Simulating Phylogenies and Evolutionary Data.- Developing and Implementing Phylogenetic Methods in R.- Short Course on Regular Expressions.

Emmanuel Paradis is an evolutionary biologist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Montpellier and Jakarta. He received his Doctorate Diploma in population biology and ecology in 1993 at the University of Montpellier II. He has conducted empirical and theoretical research on birds, mammals, and fish. He worked at the British Trust for Ornithology for three years and at the Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution in Montpellier for seven years where he developed most of the ideas presented in this book. He is the main author and maintainer of the R packages APE (Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution) and PEGAS (Population and Evolutionary Genetics Analysis System).

• Introduction.- First Steps in R for Phylogeneticists.- Phylogenetic Data in R.- Plotting Phylogenies.- Phylogeny Estimation.- Analysis of Macroevolution with Phylogenies.- Simulating Phylogenies and Evolutionary Data.- Developing and Implementing Phylogenetic Methods in R.- Short Course on Regular Expressions.