Re: New alvarezsaurid

[tlford@ix.netcom.com]

On 03/31/98 12:59:34 you wrote:
>
>At 02:23 PM 3/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>I wouldn't mind an intuitively pleasing adaptive story-->any< adaptive
>>story--that didn't include miracles, unlike the stories currently in vogue,
>>some of which are supposedly supported by phylogenetic analysis.
>        If you look at it that way, all stories require miracles (including,
>most especially, BCF). Cladistics is based on the idea that the story which
>assumes the least number of miracles is closest to the truth.

That depends on who's doing the cladigram and how much they end up tweeking the 
answers.
I've heard my far share of paleontologist say that they didn't like how the 
cladgram came out and 
they had to tweek it to get what they wanted.

Tracy