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Book review published in Applied Rheology - international journal.......2006-02-14

This new volume of Springer's successful series 'Lecture Notes in Physics' presents a variety of simple models for the structure and dynamics of complex fluids. Special emphasize is paid to the finitely extendable nonlinear elastic (FENE) spring model of polymeric fluids and several of its extensions. Suspensions of elongated particles, liquid crystals and ferrofluids are also treated, however in a rather compressed manner. Most, if not all, of the examples given in the book are taken from the author's collaborative work.

This well-organized book is divided into two parts. Part I introduces and illustrates the different models and discusses their structural and dynamical properties. Part II provides theoretical background on the topic, such as tensor calculus, methods and sample codes, in order to help the reader to do some analytical calculations himself as well as to start his or her own simulations.

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For centuries, biological scientists have been using the Linnean system of classification, organizing hierarchies of life forms by their perceived similarities and differences. In the late 20th century, some scientists have taken to using an alternative system called cladistics, which bases taxonomic classifications on ecological relationships. Under the first system, all algae fall into a single large category, which is then subdivided into various genera and species; under the second, green algae are grouped with plants, chromophyte algae with waterborne fungi, and so forth to account for the environments in which they live. Under the first system, dogs and wolves and coyotes are separated; under the second, they are united, for, the thinking goes, similarities of behavior and provenance are more important than mere lines of evolutionary descent, which can only be guessed at.

The debate over cladistics has largely been confined to seminar rooms and laboratories. Henry Gee brings it to the general public in this spirited look at how the science of paleontology, that grand tour of what Gee calls Deep Time, is conducted. Replacing old family trees with "cladograms," Gee challenges long-accepted notions about the past (for example, the classification of Archaeopteryx, which walks like a duck and quacks like a duck but is accounted for as a dinosaur) and argues for a return to rigor in testing hypotheses. His book, although about difficult issues, is immediately accessible, and readers seeking to learn something about cladistics--which Gee believes is "a revolution in thought as profound as that of Darwinian evolution by natural selection"--are off to a fine start in these pages. --Gregory McNamee

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In this exciting work on the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, Henry Gee, Chief Science Writer at Nature, tells the story of a recent revolution in palaeontology. For the first time, all of us can share in the wonder of a deceptively simple idea known as cladistics, the science of comparison. The cladistics revolution is transforming almost everything we know about the science of life in Deep Time -- the billions of years in which life has evolved on this planet. It provides insights and solutions to questions about ourselves ordinarily considered beyond the realm of science.

What can we truly know of the awesome dark chasm of Deep Time that separates us from the beginning of life on earth? In Search of Deep Time strips away conventional assumptions about the evolution of life to reveal a bizarre world that is truer to the facts -- and far stranger -- than many Darwinians and certainly any Creationists ever imagined. Scientists used to categorize life forms according to how similar they looked. If an animal had a wing, it was a bird; if it had a fin, it was a fish. But then, is a penguin a bird? Is a whale a mammal? While the answer to these questions is yes, it doesn't mean much scientifically. The real answers to how life evolved and how life forms are related come from cladistic analysis, from measuring the tremendous variety of genetic and anatomic variations between species and juggling them with computer technology. Because of cladistics, scientists have come to believe that hippos are more closely related to whales than pigs. We have learned that the old way of understanding nature, in which we squashed the teeming variety of life on earth into our own haphazard and arbitrary categories, must be replaced by understanding precisely how similar, and how different, each species measurably is. Rather than a hierarchical tree of life with ourselves at the apex, we now see a bush with evolutionary branches intertwining in strange and surprising ways -- mushrooms really are closer cousins to us than plants are.

Gee journeys among the scientists who are making the breakthrough discoveries about the evolution of life. He travels to a fossil dig in Kenya with Meave Leakey of the pioneering palaeoanthropology family that made the Rift Valley in East Africa famous as the origin of modern humans. There he finds a small fossilized skull, and considers whether anyone could ever know if that fossil was the remains of Gee's great-great-great-great-great-, etc., grandfather. The answer is clearly no. There are no knowable ancestors in Deep Time. Beyond the last few dozen generations, all individuals in the entire animal kingdom, indeed all individuals throughout the epochs of Deep Time in all the kingdoms of life on earth, are cousins. Whether in Eastern Africa or in his native London with palaeontology's "Gang of Four," Gee offers lively explorations of the idea that there is no knowable descent of man. Throughout, he displays the crackling wit and exceptional command of his field that readers of his articles in Nature have admired for years. He takes you to the places where science is happening and becomes the perfect guide to a scientific adventure of the mind.

In Search of Deep Time shines a light on age-old controversies about fish with fingers and dinosaurs with wings, but also reveals the scientific facts of problems we have only begun thinking about. For instance, how will we recognize life inside a rock on another planet if we should ever find it? Cladistics ultimately leads Gee to a surprisingly profound question: What if there were another hominid species to compare ourselves with? Perhaps the science of comparison, cladistics, is the only way we will ever really come to terms with who we are, because real knowledge can only be based on comparison. Gee illuminates a shift in the history of science that is happening now and is changing our understanding of what scientific knowledge is. More deeply, it is changing our understanding of who we are.

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Does Cladistics Throw the Evolutionary Baby Out with the Evolutionary Bathwater?.......2006-06-12

I agree with James McCall's review. I don't regret reading the book, though it didn't teach me much about cladistics that I didn't already know. However, I found the first several chapters tedious, repeating the same criticisms of "evolutionary story-telling" over and over. I think it would have been much more effective if Gee had given more examples of how cladistics better illuminates interesting evolutionary questions than the traditional approach.

Regardless of the limitations of story-telling in "deep time," it exists because people want to know, for example, why and how some group of fishes gave rise to tetrapods, or how some group of ancient proto-hippos (hypothetically) evolved into whales. Gee's extreme methodological purism (as I understand it) would have us ignore these interesting questions as unanswerable. It seems to me that a more constructive approach would be to have cladistic reconstructions set limits on and help decide between conflicting evolutionary stories, while acknowledging their highly provisional nature. The process may not be as rigorous as a cladistic analysis, but if enough hippopotamid fossils from around the time of divergence between whales and hippos were discovered, one or more evolutionary/geological/ecological hypotheses could be constructed to describe how it occurred. The hypotheses would have to be consistent with the geological and geographical context of the fossils, and would be subject to revision or winnowing as new fossils are found. This is still science.

Not as clear & definitive as I would like.......2006-05-22

I did not find a clear and definitive statement of what the author means by the term "cladistics", as opposed to the old "scenario-based" evolutionary plots: He mostly spends time defining what it is not, because it is not "unscientific", like the older approach. He seems to be aware of that as well, because he re-uses the same arguments in almost every chapter, as if not convinced that he has conveyed his point (and he's probably right). The book seems to fall between two chairs: It's not really aimed at someone professional, who needs a definitive and clear-cut statement; and it's not truly accessible to someone not of the field, who needs more of a build-up in terms of content, and who will not appreciate all the "inside baseball" stories. Possibly Gee has been working for Nature so long that he thinks of its readership as a "general audience", but it's not: I suspect most of the readers of Nature read with interest the papers in their own fields, and skip or skim the rest.

It's too bad, because the topic is of interest, and there is lots of good material in this book. But it really ought to be structured as a whole book, with clear build-up to the arguments and facts; and not as loosely as it is (almost a sequence of passes at the same set of concepts).

What we can learn from fossils.......2005-02-11

The title of "Deep Time" refers to the immense gulfs of time that separate the major events in evolution. The best known of these is the gap of 65 million years between the disappearance of the dinosaurs and the present, but this only one of many, and by no means the largest. More important than the size of these gaps for Henry Gee's arguments, however, is their emptiness: there are extremely few fossils to provide landmarks, and many of these are damaged, incomplete, and in general unsatisfactory. "Incomplete" is, indeed, a weak word to convey the idea that one worn fragment of a jawbone may be all there is for trying to reconstruct a whole animal. Fossils thus offer nothing that resembles a historical record. Gee considers that trying to reconstruct evolution on the basis of so little information requires far more rigorous methods than those that were in general use before the development of cladistics.

Most of his book, therefore, is an attempt to convince readers of the rightness of the cladistic approach, in which the only consideration is the branching of lineages into separate lines of descent. In this scheme it makes sense to classify organisms into clades, where a clade contains only those individuals that are derived from a single ancestral branchpoint. This sounds rather abstract, and in many accounts it is, but Gee does a good job of explaining what he means in a comprehensible way. He is particularly interested in fish, and they illustrate well how the cladistic approach has transformed ideas of how organisms should be classified. According to him, a fish is something you buy in a fish shop, and has no deeper meaning than that. This is because some "fish" are more closely related to mammals than they are to other "fish". As a more familiar example, there is now scarcely any doubt that chimpanzees and gorillas are much more closely related to humans than they are to other apes, orang utans and gibbons. There can be no clade, therefore, than includes all these apes but does not include humans.

Although in general Gee's argument is clear and convincing, he oversimplifies when he tries to justify the cladistic method in terms of parsimony -- the guiding principle that the preferred reconstruction of a history is the one that involves the fewest hypothetical events. The problem here is that he says far too little about the rooting of phylogenetic trees. The example that he uses is the set of three individuals that consist of himself and his two cats, and he claims that parsimony requires a classification in which the two cats are more closely related to one another than either of them is to him. This conclusion, however, owes everything to common sense and nothing to parsimony, because in an unrooted tree with only three branches exactly the same number of events are needed to connect the tree individuals regardless of which of the three one thinks is the least closely related. Because cladistics is concerned only with the branchpoints and not with the lengths of the branches, classifying Gee with one of his cats, but with a very long branch linking him to the branchpoint, is just as parsimonious as a tree that classifies the two cats together.

The book stands somewhat apart from many popular books on evolution in that it is much more about anatomy than about behaviour or molecular genetics. Both of these last two get mentioned, of course, but really what interests Gee the most is what we can learn from fossils. Nonetheless, he does not expect readers to be able to interpret fossils themselves, only to believe that the experts who do this know what they are talking about. As a result, the emphasis on anatomy does not prevent the account from being thoroughly readable. As I have mentioned, Gee is interested in fish, and this illustrates another feature that is unusual in popular books, that it has far less about humans and hominids than many books: the beginning and end are mainly concerned with human origins and evolution, but much of the middle part is not. Likewise he is much less obsessed with dinosaurs that many popular writers on evolution appear to be.

Clarifying with cladistics?.......2004-09-07

Henry Gee is like a hustling salesman. You can picture him on late-night TV flogging veggie choppers. While firmly disparaging his competition, he regales you with the wonders of his product. In this book, the competition is "adaptation" and "convergence" in evolution. The product is "cladistics". It's a new way of looking at the physical traits of Nature's plants and creatures and their evolutionary relationships. Gee is an expressive and persuasive writer. His foundation in palaeontology gives him an intimate knowledge of the science. His salesmanship, however, tends to the excessive. Like the TV promoter's pitch, when you buy the product and examine it closely, you find you've paid for more than you receive.

Gee's title, and the premise of cladistics, is that we can't see very far into the past. Historical continuity, with documents, paintings, letters and memories perhaps reinforced by family ties, doesn't grant us much depth of vision. How much, he asks, do you know about your great-grandparents? With fossils, he stresses, drawing "family" lineages is a process imbued with imprecision. He scorns anthropologists claiming to see a traceable picture of Homo sapiens' ancestry from to some hillside tooth fragment from the Rift Valley. He deems all that remote past with its scattered fossils so wonderfully explained by palaeontologists "deep time". Which, of course, covers all evolution's history.

The author's arguments as he builds his case are multilevel. He doesn't trust stratigraphy to pinpoint relationships in time - a species "A" may have survived to live parallel to a new branch "B". Yet our fossil sequence may show the "A" living later than "B". That alone, he claims, renders any assessment of adaptations suspect. Physical traits we see in fossils are often labelled "pre-adaptations" since it appears "primitive" traits may have gained in complexity over time to become more useful. Gee dismisses these sequences as unsubstantiated. "Testable" theories of evolution's process become meaningless. This is hardly news - little in the fossil record is "testable". In any case, cladistics wholly ignores evolution as a "process". It is a series of snapshots of "events".

Instead of "relating narratives" as he accuses his fellow palaeontologists of doing, Gee wants them to more closely study physical relationships. What characteristics can be identified, and how do these relate among species? Dogs, cats, and cows are clearly four-legged animals with vertebrae. So are fish, birds and crocodiles. Cladistics allows you to portray life in new arrangements of "cousinship". Gee declares these new relationships allow us to see life "as it is", not how we "want it to be". The relationships are graphically presented in what are known as "cladograms". For Gee, these diagrams portraying characteristic similarities are more meaningful than speculative diagrams about descent lineages. They also, it turns out, support Stephen Gould's notion of "punctuated equilibrium" over the "adaptationist programme" of neo-Darwinism.

Gee wants to abandon "traditional" fossil hunting and interpretation with a "revolution" [his term] - a turnover to cladistics. His proposal to banish "inference" from accumulated fossils and their context and replace it with a strict methodology is not sound. Traits, no matter how ancient or enigmatic, represent the lifestyle of their possessor. Sciencists may make proposals about how a species lived that are later overturned by new evidence. Cladistics acts as a tool to assess those evaluations, not overturn them. The book is valuable for explaining how cladistics can be used. Gee's strident tone and overassertive style dulls its cutting edge, however. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

A little bit honest...At least that's a start.......2004-01-21

Dr. Gee is honest enough to admit that the fossil record will never be able to shed light on ancestry and descent of various species. He is not honest enough to admit that the concept of macroevolion is nothing more than fanciful, atheistic superstition.

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