PhyloBotanist: evolution

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.

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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Robert Lanfear on the state of molecular phylogenetics

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I had hoped to write this up earlier, but there we are. On 9 February I went to a presentation by Robert Lanfear , the author among other th...

Thursday, August 11, 2016

The uses of phylogenies

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Inspired by a conversation today, I am wondering: What are the uses of phylogenies? I mean, as a phylogeneticist and systematist one would l...

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Creationists

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Yes, perhaps reactions like these are mean, and perhaps those who have been raised in a culture of proud ignorance should be pitied rather t...

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Inevitability versus contingency in evolution

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This third post on evolution will deal with the question of contingency. I will partly recycle, and partly expand upon, my recent comments a...

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Monday, January 20, 2014

... except under some very specific circumstances

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In my previous post I argued that evolution does not, as a whole, have any direction or goal, but I qualified that with the claim that ther...

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Evolution does not have direction...

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After the post spent harrumphing about scala naturae thinking, I should perhaps follow up a bit to explain my understanding of evolution a...

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