CIPRES outreach:
Building a Phylogeny Museum Exhibition
Michael DonoghueYale University
CIPRes Outreach Meeting, Yale University, 9-10 December 2005
Reed Beaman Yale Peabody Museum (ATOL)Mike Braun Smithsonian Institution (ATOL)Joel Cracraft American Museum of Natural History (ATOL)Michael Donoghue Yale Peabody Museum (ATOL)Sam Donovan University of PittsburghKirsten Fisher NESCentLaura Friedman Yale Peabody MuseumJacques Gauthier Yale Peabody Museum (ATOL)Shannon Hackett The Field Museum (ATOL)David Heiser Yale Peabody MuseumJay Holmes American Museum of Natural HistoryP. Korsmo-Kennon Bell Museum, University of MinnesotaScott Lanyon Bell Museum, University of MinnesotaDarcie MacMahon Florida Museum of Natural HistoryDavid Maddison University of Arizona (ATOL)David Mindell University of MichiganBrian Moore Yale UniversityWhitney Owens The Field MuseumCynthia Perrine UC Berkeley Jepson HerbariumJane Pickering Yale Peabody MuseumAnn Johnson Prum Coneflower ProductionsRick Prum Yale Peabody MuseumKatja Schulz University of ArizonaJudy Scotchmoor UC Museum of PaleontologyCate Starr American Museum of Natural HistoryWard Wheeler American Museum of Natural History (ATOL)Tandy Warnow University of Texas
Unable to attend: David Baum (Wisconsin), Brent Mishler (Berkeley) (ATOL), Rebecca Shapley (Akodon)
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The Early Paleozoic
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CIPRes Outreach Meeting, Yale University, 9-10 December 2005
Reed Beaman Yale Peabody Museum (ATOL)Mike Braun Smithsonian Institution (ATOL)Joel Cracraft American Museum of Natural History (ATOL)Michael Donoghue Yale Peabody Museum (ATOL)Sam Donovan University of PittsburghKirsten Fisher NESCentLaura Friedman Yale Peabody MuseumJacques Gauthier Yale Peabody Museum (ATOL)Shannon Hackett The Field Museum (ATOL)David Heiser Yale Peabody MuseumJay Holmes American Museum of Natural HistoryP. Korsmo-Kennon Bell Museum, University of MinnesotaScott Lanyon Bell Museum, University of MinnesotaDarcie MacMahon Florida Museum of Natural HistoryDavid Maddison University of Arizona (ATOL)David Mindell University of MichiganBrian Moore Yale UniversityWhitney Owens The Field MuseumCynthia Perrine UC Berkeley Jepson HerbariumJane Pickering Yale Peabody MuseumAnn Johnson Prum Coneflower ProductionsRick Prum Yale Peabody MuseumKatja Schulz University of ArizonaJudy Scotchmoor UC Museum of PaleontologyCate Starr American Museum of Natural HistoryWard Wheeler American Museum of Natural History (ATOL)Tandy Warnow University of Texas
Unable to attend: David Baum (Wisconsin), Brent Mishler (Berkeley) (ATOL), Rebecca Shapley (Akodon)
CIPRES Phylogeny Exhibition
• What is the Tree of Life (ToL)? • What does “phylogenetic relationship” mean? • How are we able to infer phylogenetic relationships
(i.e., using what logic)? • How big is the ToL? • How hard is it (computationally, and in terms of the
data necessary) to infer how species are related to one another?
• How much do we know now about the ToL? • Are we finding any major surprises about the ToL? • Of what real use is knowledge of the ToL?