The study of decision-making is an intellectual discipline; mathematics, sociology, psychology, economics, political science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and physics. Conventional decision theory tells us what choice behavior should be made if we follow certain axioms. Scientific curiosity instructs to reconsider beyond any area in which have defined ourselves. We design the intertwin...

Since its inception some 50 years ago, phylogenetics has permeated nearly every branch of biology. Initially developed to classify objects based on a set of cladistic rules, it has now become the central paradigm of evolutionary biology and a key framework for making sense of a wide range of disciplines [1], such as genomics [2], community ecology [3], epidemiology [4], conservation biology [5]...

Phylogenetic analyses on four new bat genomes provide convincing support for the placement of bats relative to other placental mammals, suggest that microbats are an unnatural group, and have important implications for understanding the evolution of echolocation.

Abstract Molecular methods have revolutionised virtually every area of biology, and metazoan phylogenetics is no exception: molecular phylogenies, clocks, comparative phylogenomics, developmental genetics generated a plethora data spanning numerous taxa collectively transformed our understanding the evolutionary history animals, often corroborating but at times opposing results more traditional...