Phylogenetics

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this episode of the I Can’t Sleep Podcast, drift off as we explore the world of phylogenetics—because nothing says “bedtime relaxation” like evolutionary trees and species relationships. 💤 Did you know that scientists basically play a giant game of “who’s related to whom” but with DNA? If that sounds thrilling, don’t worry—I’ll make sure it’s just boring enough to put you to sleep. So, settle in, relax, and let me lull you to sleep with the history of the tree of life—just don’t expect it to leaf you wide awake. 🌿 📌 Want More? 🔹 Skip the line and request a topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic 🔹 Listen ad-free & support the podcast: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ 🔹 Shop sleep-friendly products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Phylogenetics, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia - Phylogenetics. Happy sleeping! 😴 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Glassbox media podcast.
0:09.7	Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I read random articles from across the web to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice.
0:18.5	I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is from a Wikipedia
0:23.7	article titled Philogenetics. In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary
0:32.4	history of life using genetics, which is known as phylogenetic inference. It establishes the relationship
0:41.7	between organisms with the empirical data and observed heritable traits of DNA sequences,
0:49.0	protein amino acid sequences, and morphology. The results are a phylogenetic tree, a diagram setting the hypothetical relationships
1:00.0	between organisms and their evolutionary history.
1:04.6	The tips of a phylogenetic tree can be living taxa or fossils, which represent the present time or end of an evolutionary
1:13.6	lineage, respectively.
1:15.6	A phylogenetic diagram can be rooted or unrooted.
1:20.6	A rooted tree diagram indicates the hypothetical common ancestor of the tree.
1:25.6	An unrooted tree diagram, a network, makes no assumption about the ancestral line,
1:32.3	and does not show the origin or root of the taxa in question,
1:37.3	or the direction of inferred evolutionary transformations.
1:43.3	In addition to their use for inferring phylogenetic patterns among taxa,
1:49.0	phylogenetic analyses are often employed to represent relationships among genes or individual organisms.
1:58.0	Such uses have become central to understanding biodiversity,
2:03.6	evolution, ecology, and genomes. Phylogenetics is a component of systematics
2:10.6	that uses similarities and differences of the characteristics of species
2:16.6	to interpret their evolutionary relationships and origins.
2:20.3	It focuses on whether the characteristics of a species reinforce a phylogenetic inference
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