Abstract
With the advancement of the sequencing technology, the amount of genome data increases explosively. Genome data enable us to estimate the evolutionary distance accurately, which is the product of divergence time and evolutionary rate. However, molecular data do not provide the information about times and rates separately. By combining prior information about times and rates, fossil calibrations which provide information about absolute times, and information from molecular data, Bayesian MCMC methods make it possible to estimate the absolute divergence time as well as the evolutionary rate. With the development of phylogenetic models and computational methods in recent years, multiple loci data can be analyzed under complex models. Nowadays, Bayesian methods have become the prevailing dating methods. In this article, we introduce the framework of Bayesian dating, and the progress made in the related area.
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