PhyloBotanist

The blog of a systematic botanist of German origin, now working in Australia. It covers botany, phylogenetics, cladistics, science in general, freethought, and occasionally sillier issues.

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Did Edward Gibbon blame Christianity for the decline of the Roman Empire?

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I have now finally read Edward Gibbon 's classic History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . Although certainly opinionated in...

Sunday, February 2, 2020

Overpopulation

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Recently the famous primatologist Jane Goodall attracted criticism for saying that environmental issues "wouldn't be a problem"...

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Arguments for paraphyletic taxa, part 543,997 or so

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Although having largely moved on from blogging, I found myself writing another post on the most frequent topic of this blog, arguments for t...

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Incongruence Length Difference test in TNT

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Because I am fed up with figuring it out anew every time I need to use the Incongruence Length Difference (ILD) test (Farris et al., 1994) i...

Friday, April 5, 2019

Still not convinced by Vicariance Biogeography

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When reading recent methodological papers, review articles, or publications on my study group I sometimes add to the mix the odd paper that ...

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Review of the Aachen Memorandum

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I picked this book up at a book fair after having read that it was a satire on bureaucracy and 'political correctness'. Although I a...

Friday, June 29, 2018

TreeBASE and Dryad

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It is now generally expected that scientists, unless working on commercial or otherwise confidential projects, make the data underlying thei...

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