Principal Components Analysis fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominins
Levi Yoder Raskin, Maja Šešelj, Bárbara Domingues Bitarello, Sofia Stroustrup, Jacky K. Li, John P. Huelsenbeck
This paper shows that PCA fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominin datasets, highlighting flaws in using PCA for phylogenetic inference.
American Journal of Biological Anthropology · Jun 30, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology