The story:
New Tree Of Life Divides All Lower Metazoans From Higher Animals, Molecular Research Confirms
The response:
“It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another” (Charles Darwin, 1837)
More information:
Understanding evolutionary trees
(By the way, Rob DeSalle, who is quoted in the story, was one of my postdoc advisors and he definitely understands phylogenies — but the story is pretty sloppy nonetheless)
I was wondering what you thought about the article in question.
You are one of my ‘go-to-guys’ in evolutionary themes, so I’m really interested.
Cheers
it seems like everyday a new phylogeny tree is created and all seems to prove their organism as most primitive…………what are ur thoughts on recent artcle by bernd??