Saturday, June 9, 2018

A particularly striking example of how paraphyletic taxa confuse our thinking about evolution

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I recently reread Jason Rosenhouse's Among the Creationists and came across the following extended quote from Stephen Jay Gould, a widel...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Manuscript submission then and now

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When I started in science, back in the dark ages, submitting a manuscript to a journal was still quite simple, if perhaps a bit inefficient:...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

What are monotypic genera good for?

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There are a lot of monotypic genera around. In the group I am currently working on the most, the daisy family Asteraceae in Australia, there...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Time-calibrated or at least ultrametric trees with the R package ape: an overview

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I had reason today to look into time-calibrating phylogenetic trees again, specifically trees that are so large that Bayesian approaches are...
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Friday, April 13, 2018

Monophyletic species, kind of

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A paper by bryologist Brent Mishler and philosopher of biology John Wilkins has just come out, with the title The Hunting of the SnaRC: A Sn...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Botany picture #257: Gentianella aspera

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Has it been that long since I posted the last botany picture? With my mind still on the mountains, here is a European gentian, Gentianell...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Sam Harris and Ezra Klein on intelligence and race

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Recently atheist activist Sam Harris and journalist Ezra Klein had a discussion about intelligence and race . The background is that Harris ...
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