tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350157389434430698.post3432525412578090790..comments2024-02-27T21:23:44.159-08:00Comments on A Three-Pound Monkey Brain: 'Nother Toolshop Animatic: The Head MapMike Keeseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00147156174467903264noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350157389434430698.post-25378419175641844112009-06-18T21:22:26.356-07:002009-06-18T21:22:26.356-07:00Wow, Great job on this mashup, Mike! Totally Fant...Wow, Great job on this mashup, Mike! Totally Fantastic choice of music.Matthew Howellhttp://ruinmechanic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350157389434430698.post-53776784168119149442009-05-18T14:50:00.000-07:002009-05-18T14:50:00.000-07:00This is really awesome Mike. For ease of understa...This is really awesome Mike. For ease of understanding for non-specialist viewers it might be easier if all of the heads faced the same way. Also, I'm mostly back in communication land again...Scott Hartmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00195833796668977878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350157389434430698.post-3810781861796202562009-05-11T14:27:00.000-07:002009-05-11T14:27:00.000-07:00Mike, the idea is great, really!
By the way, don...Mike, the idea is great, really! <br /><br />By the way, don't you think that it could be used as a tool that illustrates how phylogenetic nomenclature actually works? I mean, you could for example show what happens to a taxon name with a self-destructive definition under different phylogenetic hypotheses. It would differ from these animations, and I don't know how difficult would it be, but it could clearly demonstrate that taxon names are actually searching for their places (like a letter [taxon name] with an address [phylogenetic definition] that is searching for its addressee [clade]).<br /><br />Just an idea. Maybe someone already did it... Anyway, people still think that there is something difficult about it, and a lot of them don't understand it. For example the name "<I>Aigialosauridae</I>" would be a good candidate for such a "simulation". I was thinking about its optimal phylogenetic definition, and the final version is something like "the most inclusive subclade of <I>Mosasauroidea</I> "(<I>Mosasaurus hoffmanni</I> ← <I>Dolichosaurus longicollis</I>)" containing <I>Aigialosaurus dalmaticus</I>, <I>Carsosaurus marchesettii</I> and <I>Opetiosaurus bucchichi</I> but not <I>Mosasaurus hoffmanni</I>, <I>Tylosaurus proriger</I> or <I>Plioplatecarpus marshii</I>". Or just something like that... (Although in this particular case the name probably shouldn't be defined at all...)Daniel Madziahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13227952268357983494noreply@blogger.com