Yet another post in my "draft blog post cleanup" series. Here is #21; from March 2010:
A very interesting paper came out recently from colleagues of mine at UC Davis: Rapid progress on the vertebrate tree of life. I did not know they were working on this but perhaps should have. It has some fun/interesting analysis of the accumulation of phylogenetic knowledge over time. For example see Figure 1
The rest of the paper is worth a look.
And alas I stopped there ... I think I wanted to get Brad Shaffer and Bob Thomson's comments on the paper but never got around to it. Two years later the paper still is worth a look ...
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Hi Dr. Eisen, Did you know about google's ngram analysis? It lets you search the use of words over time.
ReplyDeletehttp://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Jesus%2Cevolution&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
The figure you posted kind of reminded me of this. I wish we could do this analysis for scientific journals.