[This is a post by Guido with some help from David] There tend to be two types of studies of inheritance and evolution. First, there is e...

The role of the social media in spreading fake news has recently been in the headlines; and it is becoming recognized as a major global ris...

No se publica un libro sin alguna divergencia entre cada uno de los ejemplares. Los escribas prestan juramento secreto de omitir, de inte...

Evolutionary concepts have often been transferred to other fields of study, or derived independently in them, especially in anthropology in...

In an earlier blog post, I noted that The Music Genome Project is no such thing . The use of the word "genome" in this context is...

It has long been known that ideas about female attractiveness, and concern with body weight among young women, are closely related to expos...

Network techniques are becoming more widespread in biology and anthropology. However, the data in both of these disciplines can form very c...

I recently reviewed a book anthology devoted to the application of phylogenetic methods in archaeology (see List 2016 , PDF here ). This bo...

This blog is supposed to be about phylogenetic networks, not social networks. However, this post is a blatant exception. Earlier this yea...

Networks are currently popular in studies of music. However, they tend to be unrooted similarity networks, showing some form of alleged com...