During the first few weeks of class, students will be given an in-class assignment to score "traits" on the Caminalcules, a set of imagined cartoon organisms. Students will be expected to reconstruct ...

The Sackin indexS of a rooted phylogenetic tree, defined as the sum of its leaves' depths, is one of the most popular balance indices in phylogenetics, and Sackin's paper (Syst Zool 21:225-6, 1972) is ...

When we perceive a visual object, we implicitly or explicitly associate it with a category we know. It is known that the visual system can use local, informative image fragments of a given object, ...