Especially when we were assigned this at the beginning of the semester and the teacher has barely touched on this project at all. Now, not having discussed this in class wouldn’t be such a big deal if everyone had done a phylogenic tree or cladogram before but a lot of people have not done them before and had never seen them before being in this evolution class. I originally thought about doing something fancy like a tree-human concestor but the closer time came to do this project, I simply settled on a human-horse concestor. Only to find out that there is still no currently verifiable species that would be considered the concestor, only that scientists know — based on DNA — that Boreotheria was our last common ancestor.
I know a lot of my classmates are struggling with this as many, many of them are either not anthropology majors or this is one of their first classes to take as an anthro major. I have a feeling a lot of people will be turned off to taking more classes like this in the future because of any lack of real direction on behalf of our professor, a smart man in his own right. I’ve just finished my cladogram, it’s really pathetic looking but it’s also the third one I’ve drawn tonight, by hand. I don’t have time to try and draw a fancy one in Photoshop or something. Now I just need to get my girlfriend to draw some pretty arrows and it’s done.
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