Recently, Petter Hellström successfully defended his doctoral thesis: Trees of Knowledge: Science and the Shape of Genealogy Department ...

I have written before about the presentation of historical information using the pictorial representation of a phylogeny (eg. Phylogenetic ...

We are all familiar with the concept of a family tree (formally called a pedigree). People have been compiling them for at least a thousand...

Back in May this year, Iosif Lazaridis submitted a paper to the arXiv , called: "The evolutionary history of human populations in Euro...

There are theoretically an infinite number of ways to mathematically analyze any set of data, and yet it is unlikely that all (or even most...

I noted in an earlier post ( Drawing family trees as trees ) that from 1576 CE Scipione Ammirato, an Italian writer and historian, set up a...

I have written a number of times in this blog about the strong tendency for people to present reticulating evolutionary relationships as tr...

In a previous blog post ( Who first drew a family tree as a tree? ), I pointed out that one of the candidates for drawing the first family ...

I have noted before that the genealogies for all domesticated organisms are networks not trees, and specifically they are hybridization net...

The Online Etymology Dictionary indicates that the English-language expression "Family tree" in the sense of "graph of ance...

The drawing of large genealogies is not easy, and phylogeneticists (among others) have tried a number of solutions, including circular diag...

I have previously pointed out that phylogeny reconstructions exits for legendary figures, cartoon animals, Donald Duck, Pokémon, and dragon...

Ten years ago, Rivera and Lake decided to emphasize the series if genome fusions that seem to have been involved in the origin of the major...

The following diagrams are taken from the book A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student, Craftsman, and Amateur ...

In an earlier blog post, I discussed some of the evocative Metaphors for evolutionary relationships , particularly reticulating ones. In ...

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

"Genealogies" produced on the web are frequently no such thing, they are merely timelines. However, the following alleged Genealo...

I have noted before that Pedigrees and phylogenies are networks not trees . For example, a human family "tree" is a tree only if ...

To a modern phylogeneticist the answer to this question is obviously "no". Phylogenetic trees occur in the literature with their ...