Ari Löytynoja and Nick Goldman have developed a new method that detects and distinguishes insertions and deletions in genomes. Their work was published in the most recent issue of Science. While Löytynoja and Goldman didn’t explicitly write how their new algorithim, described in, “Phylogeny-Aware Gap Placement Prevents Errors in Sequence Alignment and Evolutionary Analysis,” impacts [...]
June 20, 2008
Emerging news of Debbie Argue’s cladistic analysis of Homo floresiensis
According to these press reports, Debbie Argue, of the Australian National University’s School of Archaeology and Anthropology, has produced a new cladistic comparison of Homo floresiensis to many other H. erectus, H. ergaster, H. habilis specimens. I read the releases, and it seems like some gracile australopithecines were also in the comparison set… at least [...]
