#qualitatively

My day job is all about #genes, so I applaud the #genomic revolution in #paleontology and #evolutionary #biology. But #evolution really is more than a shift in #allele frequencies over time. It's also change in the #phenotypes those alleles produce, and their #interaction with the world around them.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/morphological-evolution-in-a-time-of-phenomics/4A7E3BC775855EC40DE03F9EE567D22A

So I'm equally excited about the #quantitative revolution in describing and cataloguing #traits which until recently could only be analyzed #qualitatively. There's a whole new window opening into the history of life.