This blog has emphasized that phylogenetic networks are fundamentally different from other types of biological network. For most networks, ...

One of the basic tenets of modern systematics is that taxonomies should be hierarchical. That is, we arrange things in a nested hierarchy, ...

I have noted before that common usage of expressions like "family tree" often extend far beyond actual pedigrees. This particular...

Network diagrams have become rather commonplace in the modern world. Most of them are constructed along the same lines — observed entities (...

In 1965, Christopher Alexander published a classic paper called A City is Not a Tree , in which he pointed out to town planners that human ...

Recently, I considered the relationships between phylogenetic networks and other types of biological network . I concluded that they may be...

Networks have recently begun to receive serious attention in nearly all areas of biology. There has been a new focus on complex networks em...