Talk:Phylogenetic comparative methods

Article quality and name
This article does not appear to really be about anything, certainly not a coherent and unified group of methods that deserve their own central overview. The bulk of the article is given to lists, which are not really encyclopedic or relevant; and there is already a list of computational phylogenetics software article that the software links could link to. What little actual content is in this article is more about phylogenetics than anything else, though how a quote from Aristotle relates to 'controversy' is beyond me. If this article is to remain, it needs the lists chopped and the text dramatically expanded to reflect a consistent body of work on a coherent subject. Opabinia regalis 02:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed - I was hoping to find an actual discussion of various phylogenetic comparative methods, but instead found something pretty vague. If nothing else, I'd suggest moving this to comparative phylogenetics, or something... &mdash; flamingspinach | (talk) 08:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That seems the best name, and gets the most google hits, so I've moved it here. Richard001 23:18, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

The term "morphospace" is ambiguous at best, it seems that if a term needs quotation marks it should be either, 1) a direct cited quote, or 2) a sort of slang term, to which it should then be linked. If not in general, especially in this case. -Tobias

Where does the Torr quote come from?
I can't find anything for Torr 1998– it's not in the list of references, and googling for part of the quote itself returns only this page. 50.156.67.155 (talk) 04:11, 3 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Honestly, that entire section is a mess. The quotes, like true and often eloquent, don't really add much, and there's no real "controversy" as far as I'm aware.  I've commented it out, because I'm a bit leery of deleting that much content, but at best it should be moved to a WikiQuote page. HCA (talk) 19:39, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Quotes moved
I moved the big list of quotes from the wikitext to talk:phylogenetic comparative methods/quotes for when I have time to figure out wikiquote. &mdash;Jonathan Chang 00:09, 23 December 2015 (UTC)