News - Systematics
Detailed, accurate evolutionary trees that reveal the relatedness of living things can now be determined much faster and for thousands of species with a computing method developed by computer scientists and a biologist at The University of Texas at Austin.
By Yee, Danny Evolutionary Pathways in Nature - John C. Avise. 2006. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 286 pp. ISBN 0-521-85753-8, 70, US$120 (hardback); ISBN 0-521-67417-4, 35, US$65 (paperback).
By Avise, John C; Mitchell, Dale Taxonomic assignments are grossly nonstandardized in current biological classifications.
By Hearn, David; Huber, Mark Abstract.- The ancestral distance test is introduced to detect correlated evolution between two binary traits in large phytogenies that may lack resolved subclades, branch lengths, and/or comparative data.
By Balakrishnan, Rohini The species has been treated as a fundamental unit in biology (Hull, 1977) and, more recently, in biodiversity conservation (Sites and Crandall, 1997).


