Descriptive and empirical sciences, such as History, are the sciences that collect, observe describe phenomena in order to explain them draw interpretative conclusions about influences, driving forces impacts under given circumstances. Spreadsheet software relational database management systems still dominant tools for quantitative analysis overall data these allowing researchers directly analy...

As phylogenetic datasets have increased in size, site-heterogeneous substitution models such as CAT-F81 and CAT-GTR have been advocated in favor of other models because they purportedly suppress long-branch attraction (LBA). These models are two of the most commonly used models in phylogenomics, and they have been applied to a variety of taxa, ranging from Drosophila to land plants. However, ma...