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 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).
+
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.7-2