Showing papers by "Kevin de Queiroz published in 2014"
University of the Witwatersrand1, National Museum of Natural History2, Denver Museum of Nature and Science3, Louisiana State University4, University of Utah5, University of the Free State6, University of Zurich7, University of Bonn8, American Museum of Natural History9, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine10
TL;DR: The results suggest that the ventilation mechanism of turtles evolved through a division of labour between the ribs and muscles of the trunk in which the abdominal muscles took on the primary ventilatory function, whereas the broadened ribs became the primary means of stabilizing the trunk.
Abstract: The origin of the unique turtle lung ventilatory apparatus is poorly understood. Here the authors show an increase in body wall rigidity early in evolution that allowed the abdominal muscles to become specialized for breathing and the ribs to eventually form the iconic turtle shell.
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TL;DR: Systematic biologists and philosophers can gain a better understanding of how their methods and practices relate to general ideas about the nature of science, while philosophers can assess how well Popper’s ideas describe the methods andpractices in a discipline other than the ones (primarily physics and astronomy) upon which those ideas werebased.
Abstract: Starting with articles by Bock (1973) and Wiley(1975) in this journal, the field of systematic biologyhas a history, reviewed by Helfenbein and DeSalle(2005), of examining its methods in the context of thephilosophyofsciencearticulatedbyKarlR.Popper(e.g.,1959, 1962, 1983). Two main categories of debates haveemerged in this literature. In one, Popper’s philosophyisassumedtoberelevant,anditisusedtopromotesomesystematic methods and criticize others (e.g., Siddalland Kluge 1997; Kluge 2001), which has led to counter-arguments proposing that the criticized methods areequally compatible with Popper’s philosophy (e.g., deQueiroz and Poe 2001, 2003). In a second categoryof debates, the relevance of Popper’s philosophy tosystematics has been questioned (e.g., Rieppel 2003,2005; Vogt 2008) and defended (e.g., Farris 2013, 2014).These debates can provide insights of at least twodifferent kinds. Systematic biologists can gain a betterunderstanding of how their methods and practicesrelate to general ideas about the nature of science,while philosophers can assess how well Popper’s ideasabout the nature of science describe the methods andpractices in a discipline other than the ones (primarilyphysics and astronomy) upon which those ideas werebased.As part of the continuing debates about Popperianphilosophy and phylogenetics, Farris (2013) recentlyargued that Felsenstein (2004) was incorrect in sugges-ting that Popper’s concept of degree of corroboration,
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TL;DR: New information is presented on old records of four species of snakes from four different islands in Micronesia as well as supplementary data on circumstances surrounding records of a brown tree snake, Boiga irregularis, from Chuuk, and a yellow-bellied sea snake, Hydrophis platurus, from Kosrae.
Abstract: New information is presented on old records of four species of snakes from four different islands in Micronesia. A record of Dendrelaphis caudolineatus from Saipan is reexamined and the specimen reidentified as D. philippinensis, and a snake from Pohnpei previously recorded only as an unidentified species of Dendrelaphis is identified as D. punctulatus striolatus. We also provide supplementary data on circumstances surrounding records of a brown tree snake, Boiga irregularis, from Chuuk, and a yellow-bellied sea snake, Hydrophis platurus (Pelamis platura), from Kosrae.