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A List of Evolution Societies 0

Evolution Societies:

Also Evolutionary in Nature:

Primarily Geology and Paleontology:

Primarily Systematics:

Via Evolution Directory, list originally collated by Graham Wallis and Gisella Caccone

Figtree v1.0 Review 0

figtree_icon.pngFigtree (version 1.0) is a neat little application for viewing and manipulating trees. It is quite similar to TreeView, but Figtree incorporates a number of improvements including a cleaner UI, easier viewing of node labels, and an excellent method for collapsing branches. The later function should be particularly useful for generating figures for publication and for working with large trees containing 100+ taxa. Figtree’s main weakness is that it lacks a method for defining outgroups (it provides midpoint rooting only). Despite this qualification, I still highly recommend Figtree. Hopefully, future releases will address the rooting issue.

Welcome to NGCrawford.com! 4

I actually have another blog/website, but as my account at SDSU runs out in a month or two I have opted to setup a new blog. Plus, I splurged and bought a domain!

The goal of this blog is two fold: it will serve as a place for those so interested to find out more about me and it will serve as a forum for me to spout off and recommend neat stuff I find on the Internet.