Interesting Papers of the Past 2 Weeks

Note: Includes last week. Also, I added a new section with new books I add to the store. These are either books I read, I remember, or I read good reviews of. Rarely will I add newly-released ones, unless I can guarantee good quality from the author(s). Books are sorted alphabetically by first author/editor.

These are papers that may be of general interest published this week, with commentary as necessary. No specific case studies, overly specialised research, or taxonomic papers. Papers ordered only by their appearance in my inbox. For PDFs, e-mail me, I get most of them. You can request an in-depth analysis of any paper and I’ll do it as I get the time.

Open-access papers, those that are free to read/download even without an academic connection, are tagged with [OA] for easy finding with your browser’s text search (Ctrl+F).

30 papers, 2 of them open access.

Index:

• New Books in the Store [6]
• Special Issues [4]
• Arthropods [3]
• Ecology [9]
• Education [1]
• Environmental [5]
• Evolution [6]
• History of Science [1]
• Palaeontology [2]
• Phylogenetics [1]
• Zoology [2]

Building Cladograms 1: Introduction, Building a Character Matrix

This series of posts is basically a walk-through tutorial showing you how you can build your own phylogenetic tree based on morphological data. Maybe in the future I will do something similar for molecular data, and then for total evidence (combined molecular and morphological).