This is a joint post by David Morrison and Ajith Harish. There has been a flurry of reviewing activity recently about the new book: Th...

Phylogenetic networks do not always fare very well in the traditional media. The general public has enough troubles dealing with a phylogen...

After a bit more than 400 posts, in general with regular posts on Mondays and Wednesdays, this blog is about to become more sporadic. As ...

One possible use of blog posts is as first drafts of ideas that might make their appearance in a refereed publication at a later date. Thus...

It is always interesting to see what the media make of scientific publications. Some time ago, several of us were involved in a paper in Tr...

I have occasionally been asked about what blogs currently exist in phylogenetics, because there seem to be very few. There are blogs in rel...

A couple of weeks ago I reported on those journal covers that I know illustrate phylogenetic networks. I am happy to report that networks h...

Phylogenetic networks are rather specialized things, and so we do not expect to find much mention of them outside the specialist literature...