![Magnolia ×soulangeana fruit [CC-BY-SA-3.0 Steve Cook]](https://www.polypompholyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Magnolia_×soulangeana_fruit-225x300.jpg)
A quickie this week: magnolia fruit look like something from another planet.
Tag: magnolia
Jul 26
The magnolia misunderstanding
![Angiosperm phylogeny stressing magnoliids [CC-BY-SA-3.0 Steve Cook]: thistle appears as an outgroup to the ((magnolia,bay),(pepper,birthwort)) clade](https://www.polypompholyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/angiosperm_phylogeny_stressing_magnoliids-300x153.png)
T. Ryan Gregory has a great post at Genomicron on the ‘Platypus Fallacy’. He imagines a platypus professor explaining the wonders of the Human Genome Project to a group of student platypodes: “The lineage of which humans are a part is a very ancient offshoot of our mammalian family tree, so it was 166 million …