An incredibly brief photo and caption this time out. Does anyone know what this is, and thus work out the incredibly tenuous link to cladistics? Should provide seconds of amusement if you are psychotically interested in phylogenetics and Mexican botany. Hmmm, well that description probably fits someone somewhere, but as this is ostensibly a blog about dinosaurs and pterosaurs, it is pretty unlikely they’ll ever find this post.
It’s true…those cladists are crazy about their barbecue.
It’s true…those cladists are crazy about their barbecue.
Sorry…I got an F in html-studies.
Very good sir! I knew someone would get it, but far from that fast.
We phylogenetics/systematics types can “paup” up just about anywhere– though, to be honest, I only recently discovered your site.
Do you use Mesquite at all? I have played around a bit, but as I no longer do phylogenetics full time have had little opportunity.
I’ve actually never used it. I have quite a collection of programms knocking around, but I am firmly wedded to PAUP* as an analytical program and then MacClade for looking over the trees and results. This is partly presonal preference as they are the systems I ma most familair with and partly philosophical – since they are so common it is easy for other people to check my data / results and most epople will understand what settings and optimisations were used and why.
Yeah, I agree with you on your justifications for using PAUP* and MacClade.
Well, that make a pleasant change, thanks. By the way, for those who actually care and have not worked it out from the comments already, this is a mesquite tree, and is also the name of a phylogenetics computer program. In a way, it’s actually very appropriate designation for such a program – the tree is in fact very bushy and covered in nasty thorns.
But as Neil said, it makes steak taste so goooooood!
you can use the seed pods for BBQ instead of burning the wood. They give you the same flavor without having to cut down the tree. The pods are also edible but work best ground into a sweet flour.