For the love of trees

One of the most pervasive carryovers from ladder-of-life thinking is that some living species are older than others.  These are often though...

A friend texted me today to share a ‘crazy’ biology fact – that ‘a slug is not a critter but a fungus’.   Of course, I had to protest immedi...

In previous articles ( here and here *), I have argued that understanding phylogenetic trees is a core part of understanding ...

>>Terms like 'basal', 'early-diverging', and 'first-branching' reflect persistent misconceptions about evolu...