In [[statistical genetics]], '''Felsenstein's tree pruning algorithm''' (or '''Felsenstein's tree peeling algorithm'''), due to [[Joe_Felsenstein|Joseph Felsenstein]], is an [[algorithm]] for computing the [[likelihood]] of aan [[Coalescent theory|coalescentevolutionary tree]] from a set of [[genotypenucleic acid]]s sequence data.
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