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...
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...
During the past few years, Bayesian approaches to phylogeny reconstruction have become more and more widespread, including analyses of fossil hominins. Among...
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...
I don’t know why so many people who accept and promote evolution have such a dim view of phylogenetic systematics.
This passage is the first paragraph of the introduction to Franz Weidenreich’s monograph, The Skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis</em> Weidenreich:ZKD:194...
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...
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...
So, they’ve resurrected 45-million-year-old yeast from amber, and are using it to brew beer under the “Fossil Fuels” label: