good stuff from today
Oct. 8th, 2013 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinian1. Oh, scientists, never stop being catty:
This paper as a whole cracked me up multiple times. I think I would like this guy.
2. Crisply cool weather, red and orange and yellow leaves.
3. Doctor visit was not terribly interesting, and I don't get to swallow a camera, but progress is a good thing. Endoscopy Monday.
The neo-orthodoxy of cladism would dictate that I polarize characters by comparing the character-states in the Malpighiaceae with those found in appropriate outgroups. While I find it impossible to achieve that ideal fully, I agree that in making this kind of argument one should at least be explicit about one's reasons for asserting that any character-state is relatively plesiomorphic or apomorphic, and that much I shall do.
Now that we have reinvented Engler's wheel, can we polarize characters that vary within the Malpighiaceae? Only a few, as it turns out, but I shall do what I can, using a combination of outgroup and ingroup arguments and identifying them as such so that cladistic purists will know which to reject immediately.
This paper as a whole cracked me up multiple times. I think I would like this guy.
The other explanation that I can suggest for colporate pollen in the Old World is that my hypothesis that the family originated in isolation in the New World is wrong.
2. Crisply cool weather, red and orange and yellow leaves.
3. Doctor visit was not terribly interesting, and I don't get to swallow a camera, but progress is a good thing. Endoscopy Monday.
