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To resolve the history of these large-sized #mammals, we integrate a dependency-coded matrix of 54 discrete characters and 42 morphogeometric and 5 continuous characters, across a sample of 37 taxa.
✅ 5 major lineages recovered
✅ Character weight ranking
✅ Ancestral reconstructions
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What makes South American Ungulates so unique?🦏🍃 #FossilFriday
Check out our new comprehensive combined-evidence #phylogeny of #Toxodontidae!!! #Paleontology #Evolution #Fossils #Argentina #CONICET
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AI perpetuates knowledge artefacts. Mind you, a look at PubMed will tell you that humans are pretty good at perpetuating these too.. theconversation.com/a-weird-phra... ht @cyrilpedia.bsky.social
How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:
merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery.
We can all use some beauty right now (Quercus robur L., pedunculate oak, in Belgium; www.plantsystematics.org/imgs/jdelaet...)
No such thing as a free lunch: a note on what 'natural' means in the Phylogenetic Minimum Description Length optimality criterion and how PMDL relocates substantive assumptions into the chosen description language onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A new morphological phylogeny of Malacostraca comparing the application of character dependencies and implied weighting - Grams - Cladistics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Pol & Ezcurra present a fully scripted (TNT & R, incl. publication-ready graphics) #parsimony based workflow for estimating rates. It deals with ambiguous optimizations and multiple MPTs and can use different calibration approaches. Nice work! #phylogeny
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.
Wheeler and Varón (2025) proposed phylogenetic minimum description length (PMDL) as a phylogenetic optimality criterion grounded in algorithmic (Kolmogorov) complexity. PMDL applies the minimum descr...
Using a new character matrix composed of revised matrices of previous analyses and new morphological findings, the phylogeny of Malacostraca (Pancrustacea) is analysed anew with 207 characters for 35...
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We describe a protocol for estimating evolutionary rates from phylogenetic trees based on parsimony character optimization. The rate estimation is conducted through a TNT script and the results are a...
