mtDNA phylogeny redrawed by a Chinese team

[Alpenjager]

The mtDNA phylogeny have experienced several and major changes in this new paper.
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/18/101410

According to the authors haplogroup R is splitted between R, R0 and LM

What do you think?

mtDNA phylogeny.png

[Fire Haired14]

That tree is complete %^*).

[Megalophias]

Their phylogeny is different because they set the root of the tree to be at R.

If you look at the branching pattern you can see it is actually pretty much the same as the normal one, only the root is different; and that is different because they predetermined it rather than rooting with an outgroup or whatever.

Same with their Y chromosome tree: it's the same branching, but they have predetermined the root to be at F.

[Fire Haired14]

The problem is their predetermination is wrong.

[Mmiikkii]

According to the authors haplogroup R is splitted between R, R0 and LM.

Whaaaat????
It is well established that L lineages are the oldest and the most divergent among themselves.

While M & N are both evolutions of L3.
They just flipped it.