Quote: Sweeping out the cruft for cladistics in human origins
Eric Delson, Niles Eldredge, and Ian Tattersall in 1977 published on one of the first cladistic analyses of humans and our close relatives: “Reconstruction o...
All posts tagged with phylogenetics
Are parsimony analyses better than Bayesian methods for phylogenetics?
During the past few years, Bayesian approaches to phylogeny reconstruction have become more and more widespread, including analyses of fossil hominins. Among...
When Australopithecus ramidus was the missing link
Ann Gibbons is a science writer specializing in paleoanthropology for the journal, Science. Her 2006 book, The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest...
Humans aren't monkeys. We aren't apes, either.
I don’t know why so many people who accept and promote evolution have such a dim view of phylogenetic systematics.
When anthropological and geological facts collide
This passage is the first paragraph of the introduction to Franz Weidenreich’s monograph, The Skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis</em> Weidenreich:ZKD:194...
Questioning phylogenetic inferences about language
Bruce Bower of Science News enters an article covering the last year of application of phylogenetic methods to questions of language evolution: “Darwin’s Ton...
Quote: Higher-level taxa
I ran across this passage in a book chapter by D. Tab Rasmussen, covering early catarrhine evolution. I think it captures an important point about the fossil...
Domesticated yeast face ancient amber-yeast competitors
So, they’ve resurrected 45-million-year-old yeast from amber, and are using it to brew beer under the “Fossil Fuels” label: