Building trees by juggling information and following rules: an expert interview study on tree-building and phylogenetic inference
Steven Tyrrell,
Philipp Schmiemann
Abstract:Tree-thinking is a fundamental skill set for understanding evolutionary theory and, thus, part of biological and scientific literacy. Research on this topic is mostly directed towards tree-reading—the umbrella-term for all skills enabling a person to gather and infer information from a given tree. Tree-building or phylogenetic inference as the second complementary sub-skill-set, encompassing all skills which enable a person to build a phylogenetic tree from given data, is not understood as well. To understand … Show more
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