CSPAN2 Popular Culture October 20, 2013
All the different animals, different branching points, different transitional nodes in the tree of life. And so i argue that if this method of investigation is giving us a true historical signal, we should get an unambiguous signal, one that is giving us a single tree that is telling us the story of one historical unfolding of life. After all, history only happened once. That we get so many conflicting trees, i think, raises question about whether the method is sending a historical signal at all. The other problem with this method of investigation is that it begs the question, it says that the...