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This week we will discuss a paper on how incorporating fossil data, even if flawed, into trait reconstruction, can improve the accuracy of the result.

Puttick MN. 2016. Partially incorrect fossil data augment analyses of discrete trait evolution in living species. Biol Lett 12(8): 20160392.

Meet in Fellows bar area, University House, most likely in Forrest Room.

Coopers and Cladistics is a long-running evolutionary biology discussion group held every second Thursday at University House, ANU. Please contact Mike Crisp if you would like to be included on the C&C email list.