NEW FEATURES
+ o The new function compute.brtime computes and sets branching times.
+
o mantel.test() has a new argument 'alternative' which is
"two-sided" by default. Previously, this test was one-tailed
with no possibility to change.
+ o ace() can now do REML estimation with continuous characters,
+ giving better estimates of the variance of the Brownian motion
+ process.
+
BUG FIXES
process when alpha = 0 to avoid division by zero. The option
'linear' has been removed.
+ o Cross-validation in chronopl() did not work when 'age.max' was
+ used.
+
+ o consensus(, p = 0.5) could return an incorrect tree if some
+ incompatible splits occur in 50% of the trees (especially with
+ small number of trees).
+
+ o c() with "multiPhylo" did not work correctly.
+
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.7-2