Q&A: Family webs may capture evolutionary change in plants better than family trees

This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right before his Aug. 1 start date, Tiley and colleagues published a Perspectives piece in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the shifting nature of the way researchers think about evolution, particularly so-called reticulate evolution, which examines evolution in terms of “family webs” rather than “family trees.”

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