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Lissamphibia Diphyletic?
A PAPER PUBLISHED recently in Nature details the discovery of a common ancestor of salamanders and frogs, Gerobatrachus hottoni, by Anderson and coworkers. This creature had a salamander-like build, … more »
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Phylogenetic Dilemma
Victor wrote 3 weeks ago: (This post is for my own notes. It will probably make sense to about 0.00000001% of people subscri … more »
Episode 1: A ScreenCast Tutorial On How-To Do A Multiple Sequence Alignment & Draw A Phylogenetic Tree Using Swami
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 weeks ago: The last time I did a little tutorial on how to use bioinformatic tools in anthropological research … more »
Protein alignments, ART, and buggy Nexus Files
Victor wrote 3 weeks ago: Here are some notes about a strange problem with ART and Nexus files If you attempt to run ART, and … more »
The Tree of Life
Duncan wrote 1 month ago: I’m not much of an evolutionary biologist, but Jonathan Eisen asked for help and I can’t … more »
BLASTing my way to a Thesis...
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xaviergoldie wrote 1 month ago: Its been a while, apologies for the lack of posting…I haven’t been doing much writing on … more »
Kin Selection Rescued by Phylogenetics?
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myrmecos wrote 2 months ago: 30 years ago, biologists thought they’d solved one of Darwin’s thorniest problems, the … more »
Lissamphibia Diphyletic?
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Nimravid wrote 2 months ago: A PAPER PUBLISHED recently in Nature details the discovery of a common ancestor of salamanders and f … more »
MCMC "burn-in" calculator
Victor wrote 2 months ago: Here is a Ruby script for calculating the “burn-in” for a Markov Chain Monte Carlo run, … more »
The Evolution of Mammalian Sex Chromosomes
Nimravid wrote 2 months ago: I HAD PLANNED on covering the article on the platypus genome that came out in Nature last week, but … more »
Who are you calling 'primitive'?
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Nimravid wrote 3 months ago: LET’S SUPPOSE that we are interested in studying the evolution of the squamates, the snakes an … more »
Equal rights for monotremes!
Nimravid wrote 3 months ago: We’ve had a blitz of platypus genome papers this week, with a brand new article on the platypu … more »
A cladistic analysis of 17 hominid skulls
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 months ago: So, I got my hands on that mouth watering Nature paper I mentioned a couple days ago. It is titled, … more »
An upcoming Nature paper provides 'a new, simplified family tree of humanity.'
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 months ago: The press is running some mouth watering news on an upcoming Nature paper that provides ‘a new … more »
Volvocines—Evolving Multicellularity
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Nimravid wrote 3 months ago: VOLVOCINE ALGAE have a recent evolution of multicellularity, only 30-70 million years ago. This may … more »
Pop Science Journalists Cause Mental Anguish
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Nimravid wrote 3 months ago: ABOUT A MONTH ago I reported on a better-resolution metazoan tree of life. This week the article ca … more »
Sorry So Slow
Nimravid wrote 4 months ago: Yes, the busy-ness has captured me. I am working on an entry right now about Triassic reptile track … more »
A counterexample of elision's efficacy over culling.
Victor wrote 4 months ago: In response to “Elision: A Method for Accommodating Multiple Molecular Sequence Alignments wit … more »
Cnidarians--Radially Symmetric Bilaterians?
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Nimravid wrote 4 months ago: WHILE CNIDARIA are considered to have radial symmetry, a new article proposes that the cnidaria had … more »
The Evolution of Ant Agriculture
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Nimravid wrote 4 months ago: THE ATTINE ANTS are a clade of New World ants that cultivate fungal gardens for use as a food source … more »
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