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Platypus genome is sequenced
And now we have to put up with newspapers calling the platypus “part bird.” PZ Myers at Pharyngula lets off a little steam in his intro to the platypus genome: Over and over again, the new… more →
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HOW ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE ARE CLASSIFIED
Conscious Ventures wrote 3 weeks ago: The History of Scientific Classification For centuries, the naming and classification of living orga … more →
Emerging news of Debbie Argue's cladistic analysis of Homo floresiensis
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Kambiz wrote 1 year ago: According to these press reports, Debbie Argue, of the Australian National University’s School … more →
Chimeras in palaeontology
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David Hone wrote 1 year ago: I have always been a fan of Roman and especially Greek mythology and especially the mythical monster … more →
The principle of parsimony in science
David Hone wrote 1 year ago: The principle of parsimony (also known as Ockham’s Razor) is a fundamental aspect of science, yet is … more →
Platypus genome is sequenced
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monado wrote 1 year ago: And now we have to put up with newspapers calling the platypus “part bird.” PZ Myers at … more →
A cladistic analysis of 17 hominid skulls
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Kambiz wrote 1 year ago: So, I got my hands on that mouth watering Nature paper I mentioned a couple days ago. It is titled, … more →
Pop Science Journalists Cause Mental Anguish
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Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: ABOUT A MONTH ago I reported on a better-resolution metazoan tree of life. This week the article cam … more →
Understanding Evolutionary Trees
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Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: EVOLUTIONARY TREES will show up fairly frequently here, and are also frequently misunderstood, so I … more →
The Metazoan Tree of Life Improved
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Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: IN THE PAST few years there has been some acrimony regarding the division of the protostomes into Lo … more →
The Term "Mammal-Like Reptiles" Enrages Me
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Nimravid wrote 1 year ago: I RECENTLY READ a paleontology book that irked me by referring to the basal synapsids as “mamm … more →
News Flash: Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct!
alertedeye wrote 2 years ago: Human arrogance. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. I think that we, … more →
Fly phylogeny
monado wrote 2 years ago: These three scientists David K. Yeates, CSIRO Entomology PO Box 1700 Canberra AUSTRALIA Rudolf Meier … more →
Godwits on Tetrapod Zoology
monado wrote 2 years ago: I thought that the family trees of recent birds were all worked out, given the number of PhD student … more →
New phylum for funny little worm
monado wrote 3 years ago: This worm is so different from everyone else we know that it merits its own phylum. Just to be clear … more →
The Ancestor’s Tale
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monado wrote 3 years ago: I’m finally reading this Richard Dawkins opus. The language is a bit too convoluted, a bit too … more →
Dinosaur-to-bird cladistics
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monado wrote 3 years ago: At the Royal Ontario Museum’s exhibit on “Feathered Dinosaurs” we weren’t al … more →
Notes from the Feathered Dinosaurs exhibit
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monado wrote 3 years ago: The first part of the exhibit was an introduction to the history of fossil birds. Early finds: 1844, … more →
A new bird from China: Hongshanornis
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monado wrote 3 years ago: Researchers in China have recovered a new genus and species (gen. et sp. nov.) of fossil bird beauti … more →
Immune systems in Agnatha
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monado wrote 3 years ago: Lampreys are fish that are much older than dinosaurs in the fossil record. They come from a time … more →
