Edit: Living fossil

[danjgates]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil
The page is already calling for additional citations and verification. It conditions the term as an "informal non-scientific term, mostly used in the lay media." then treats the rest of the page as if the concept is widely accepted in the scientific community and includes case studies. Overall, it leads to confusion at best and non-tree (ladder) thinking at worst

[beroe]

Some potentially useful citations for this section and for the basal entry...

Casane, D., Laurenti, P., 2013. Why coelacanths are not “living fossils.” BioEssays.
CRISP, M., COOK, L., 2005. Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20, 122–128. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2004.11.010
Grandcolas, P., Nattier, R., Trewick, S., 2014. Relict species: a relict concept? Trends Ecol Evol (Amst) 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.10.002
Gregory, T.R., 2008. Understanding Evolutionary Trees. Evo Edu Outreach 1, 121–137. doi:10.1007/s12052-008-0035-x
Krell, F.T., Cranston, P.S., 2004. Which side of the tree is more basal? Systematic Entomology 29, 279–281.
Mathers, T.C., Hammond, R.L., Jenner, R.A., Hänfling, B., Gómez, A., n.d. Multiple global radiations in tadpoleshrimps challenge the concept of “living fossils” [WWW Document]. peerj.com. URL https://peerj.com/articles/62.pdf (accessed 6.6.13).
Nagalingum, N.S., Marshall, C.R., Quental, T.B., Rai, H.S., Little, D.P., Mathews, S., 2011. Recent synchronous radiation of a living fossil. Science 334, 796–799. doi:10.1126/science.1209926
Omland, K.E., Cook, L.G., Crisp, M.D., 2008. Tree thinking for all biology: the problem with reading phylogenies as ladders of progress. BioEssays 30, 854–867. doi:10.1002/bies.20794

[davelunt]

Also this by Ed Yong is worth referencing
"The Falsity of Living Fossils: New studies of tadpole shrimp and other organisms show that the term “living fossil” is inaccurate and misleading."
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34927/title/The-Falsity-of-Living-Fossils/

[davelunt]

I've tidied up the start a little, and added a section on Evolution in LFs, but most of rest of article is still low quality.