I have previously noted that the first empirical phylogenetic tree apparently was published by St George Jackson Mivart in late 1865, a ful...

There are no new problems in science, only old ones that obtrude themselves on you in new ways. One biological example of this truism is th...

It is usually acknowledged that Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), published an early evolutionary tr...