Making alignments

[Sean Eddy]

In article <6a30e6$ro7 at net.bio.net> "Guy A. Hoelzer" <hoelzer at med.unr.edu> writes:
  >This seems to me to be an overly optimistic view of the value of maximum
  >likelihood approaches.  In general, maximum likelihood is vulnerable to
  >errors in the chosen model of evolution and in the parameter estimates
  >that are used.

Agreed. But on the other hand: a phylogenetic inference method that is
/not/ sensitive to the chosen model of evolution would be...? 

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