Phylogenies

-- Among pinnipeds, sealions belonging to Arctocephalus and Zalophus often hybridise, but they are well apart in phylogenies, and have traditionally even been grouped in separate subfamilies. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

IOW Zachriel you have failed to show that I have a misunderstanding of phylogenies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Were an organism an evolutionary chimera, then its various chronometers [phylogenetic markers] would yield different, conflicting phylogenies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I noticed that no ID supporter has bothered to correct your misunderstanding of phylogenies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is precisely the HGT that spoils the tree-like phylogenies, hence the controversy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, in his seminal 1987 review Bacterial Evolution, Carl Woese (34) stressed the incompatibility of ribosomal RNA phylogenies with even those few higher taxa that microbiologists still believed in and noted that “not only did we know very little about eubacterial phylogeny before the advent of the rRNA approach, but what we thought we knew tended to be wrong.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support treethinking? ❋ Unknown (2010)

His understanding of phylogenies and nested hierarchies is completely muddled. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anyone who has taught basic evolutionary concepts to college undergrads and probably high school students as well has most likely dealt with students struggling to properly read and draw phylogenies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have found that when I lecture on phylogenies to audiences outside of evolutionary biology, they are mystified as to what the branches mean and what the order of tips means. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Haeckel drew the first phylogenies and coined the term “tree of life.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling, discussing the possibility of the twin nested hierarchy before the first molecular phylogenies had been made. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hunter apparently has no idea that, in phylogenetics, it is trivial to test hypotheses like “there is no tree structure in the sequence data” or “these two phylogenies from two different genes agree/disagree with each other”, to quantify the amount of agreement/disagreement, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)