Taxacom: Evolution without black box software

[Richard Zander]

I recommend to non-cladist taxonomists my recently published "Minimally monophyletic genera are the cast-iron building blocks of evolution" in the Ukrainian Botanical Journal 81: 87-99. 2024. It is available at  https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fukrbotj.co.ua%2Farchive%2F81%2F2%2F87&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C55946e59664f4763147d08dc6b996ebc%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638503553933523810%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2SssHC8Qm7OGkPFLCVQWa5LZFg5YUihrXFSOBP%2FEzW8%3D&reserved=0  also ResearchGate and Academia.edu. The paper promotes the genus as basic unit of evolution, standard morphology as used in taxonomy as key to understanding trait evolution, distinguishes process-based traits into novon and ancestron, and demonstrates that Bayesian support is high and firm because it involves conjugate priors.

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