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Kevin de Queiroz

Researcher at National Museum of Natural History

Publications -  340
Citations -  14266

Kevin de Queiroz is an academic researcher from National Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Clade & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 334 publications receiving 13194 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin de Queiroz include American Museum of Natural History & University of California, Berkeley.

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Philosophy and Phylogenetic Inference: A Comparison of Likelihood and Parsimony Methods in the Context of Karl Popper's Writings on Corroboration

TL;DR: It is argued that the concept of likelihood in general, and its application to problems of phylogenetic inference in particular, are highly compatible with Popper's philosophy.
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Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective on Evolution of Lizards of the Anolis grahami Series

TL;DR: A parsimony analysis of these data combined with previously published allozymic data yields a single most parsimonious tree with strong support for monophyly of the A. grahami series, the sister-group relationship between Anolis lineatopus and A. opalinus.
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The PhyloCode and the Distinction between Taxonomy and Nomenclature

TL;DR: The distinction between taxonomy and nomen clature is highlighted and used to explain two of Pickett's misunder standings about the PhyloCode.
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Branches in the lines of descent: Charles Darwin and the evolution of the species concept

TL;DR: An important shift related to the unified species concept has been emerging ever since Darwin reformulated the concept of species with an evolutionary basis, and the species category is effectively being decoupled from the hierarchy of taxonomic ranks and transferred to the hierarchical of biological organization.
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Fossorial Origin of the Turtle Shell

TL;DR: The adaptations related to fossoriality likely facilitated movement of stem turtles into aquatic environments early in the groups' evolutionary history, and this ecology may have played an important role in stem turtles surviving the Permian/Triassic extinction event.