Following the current flow, we have had a few recent coronavirus posts here on the Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks. In this pos...

Over 60 years ago, Robert Sokal and Peter Sneath changed the way we quantitatively study evolution, by providing the first numerical approa...

In last week's Part 1 , I gave an introduction to the problem of categorizing the polarity of morphological traits. How can we reconstr...

In the final part of this series dissecting angiosperm gene trees (see: Why the emporer has no clothes on — part 1 and part 2 ), we will e...

A critical question in phylogenetics, and this applies to both the detection and inference of reticulation, is: How much trust do we put in...