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A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History
Today’s Science sees the publication of a phylogenomic study of 196 bird species, which has some rather marked differences to the traditional phylogenies of bird species. Abstract says - Deep avian...
View ArticleA Look at Linguistic Evolution
In today’s, Evolution: Education and Outreach, Anastasia Thanukos takes A Look at Linguistic Evolution: Anyone who has ever tackled a Shakespeare play knows that English has changed substantially in...
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Dinosaurs, Supertrees, and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution
Today’s PRS.B sees the publication of a supertree of 600 Dinosaur species. Awesome. ScienceDaily has more information here. Here’s a picture of it (note: a full version is available here): The abstract...
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Systematic Biology T-Shirts
Everyone’s favorite systematics journal Systematic Biology have produced a collection of T-Shirts that you can buy online (like the awesome one above). This is a fundraising project, and 100% of the...
View ArticlePhylogenetics in the NY Times
The NY Times has a nice article on phylogenetic tree visualisation. Yes, really: For years now the researchers have sequenced DNA from thousands of species from jungles, tundras and museum drawers....
View ArticleUsing Phylogenetics to trace morphological evolution
Using Phylogenetics to trace morphological evolution. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fObmcBGMm9I]
View ArticleNature Methods special issue on Visualizing Biological Data
A series of five commissioned Reviews discuss the challenges of visualizing biological data and the visualization tools available to biologists working with genomes, alignments and phylogenies,...
View ArticleR Task View – Phylogenetics, Especially Comparative Methods
The history of life unfolds within a phylogenetic context. Comparative phylogenetic methods are statistical approaches for analyzing historical patterns along phylogenetic trees. This task view...
View ArticleEvolutionary Trees from the Tabloids and Beyond
There’s a simple reason that phylogenies have become increasingly prevalent in textbooks and now even appear in middle school texts: phylogenies have become increasingly important in biological...
View ArticleNetworks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution
Language evolution is traditionally described in terms of family trees with ancestral languages splitting into descendent languages. However, it has long been recognized that language evolution also...
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