8mo ago

xkcd #3010: Geometriphylogenetics

Geometriphylogenetics

There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

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Wow! I was so sure that circles and pentagons were closely related. Who would have known.
- I'm pretty sure pentagons are a subspecies of bestagons...
  
  all are just subspecies of the bestagons:
  circles are just curvy hexagons
  polygons are just flawed hexagons
  triangles are just partial hexagons
The classic square peg in a round hole problem.
- You can just drop them all in the square hole. Triangles, semicircles, arches, doesn’t matter. All of them go into the square hole.
  Source: Internet
I'm more surprised that trapeziums aren't related to triangles.

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