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Written May 27, 2008 in Tree Tuesday, cultural evolution, phylogenetics
Shown here is the phylogeny of biscuits (or maybe the cladogram of cookies). From the ground-breaking work of Smith (2005) The Affinities of Jaffa Cakes: Using Cladistics to Classify Biscuits. Note the controversial basal subgrouping of the pseudobiscuits clade.
Edit: I wasn’t particularly convinced by the treelike-ness of these biscuitoids, so I threw the data [...]
Stoclet-Fries: Lebensbaum (Werkvorlage), (1905/09) by Gustav Klimt. (Full image)
(More on American Nervousness, thanks Fiona!)
Phylogeny of Sabicea (Angiosperm) with American subspecies encircled. From Wernham (1914) and Lam (1936).
Wernham, H.F. (1914). A monograph of the genus Sabicea. London: British Museum of Natural History.
Lam, H.J. (1936) Phylogenetic symbols, past and present: Being an apology for genealogical trees. Acta Biotheoretica, 2:153-194.
“Ethanolomics” by Madelina @ Tipping the spherical cow
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