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Is your phylogeny informative?

Yes­ter­day my paper   appeared in early view in Evo­lu­tion (author’s preprint),1 so I’d like to take this chance to share the back-story and high­light my own view on some of our find­ings, and the asso­ci­ated pack­age on CRAN.2 I didn’t set out to write this paper.  I set out to write a very dif­fer­ent …

January 19, 2012 – 2:10 pm | By Carl | Posted in Phylogenetics | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Showcasing the latest phylogenetic methods: AUTEUR

While high-speed fish feed­ing videos may be the sig­na­ture of the lab, dig a bit deeper and you’ll find a wealth of com­par­a­tive phy­lo­ge­netic meth­ods sneak­ing in.  It’s a nat­ural union — expert func­tional mor­phol­ogy is the key to good com­par­a­tive meth­ods, just as phy­lo­ge­nies hold the key to untan­gling the evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gins of that …

July 20, 2011 – 3:07 pm | By Carl | Posted in Phylogenetics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

141 scientists can’t be wrong?

Turn­ing the author-list into a peti­tion is becom­ing an almost famil­iar ruse in the table of con­tents of jour­nals such as Nature , . This as prompted some rather provoca­tive com­men­tary on whether we have begun con­duct­ing sci­en­tific debates as pop­u­lar­ity con­tests rather than argu­ments of evi­dence and logic (see David Sloan Wil­son on inclu­sive …

July 8, 2011 – 1:18 pm | By Carl | Posted in Open Notebook Thoughts | Tagged , | Comments (0)