No pictures of cute furry animals. Next time it's given will be Spring, 1999. This is a graduate-level course on evolutionary trees. Methods for inferring phylogenies, and methods for doing things with them. Some background in statistics necessary.
Most postings are serious discussions by researchers.
Some percentage of them are semantic issues or legalistic discussions of taxon names. Right now there is an endless thread about cladistic versus evolutionary-systematic approaches to classification. Low volume, high quality. Co-moderated by Jerry Learn of our Micro Department. Supposed to be the forum for discussion by population biologists.