Emmanuel Paradis wrote:

> The new default for ace will be to use REML for continuous 
> characters and ML for discrete ones.

after Ted Garland wrote:

>>  Yes, we have always used REML for this!

(Emmanuel wrote: )

>>>   You can also try method="REML" which gives much better 
>>> estimates of sigma^2 than ML. I think I'll make it the 
>>> default for continuous characters.

** bragging mode on **

Glad to see you have all caught up to this paper:

Felsenstein, J. 1973. Maximum likelihood estimation
  of evolutionary trees from continuous characters.
  American Journal of Human Genetics 25: 471-492.

(which can be accessed at that journal free of charge)

** bragging mode off **

Joe
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Joe Felsenstein, [email protected]
 Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington
 Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA

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