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Re: Au revoir (from me) cladistics

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Au revoir (from me) cladistics
From: chris brochu <cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:48:08 -0600
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>People dont prime a cladistic analysis which will confuse their
>flightlessness as a single event because they *know* they were multiple!


No, it's because "flightlessness" by itself is not a character - it's a
complex of many characters. And, in principle, we *don't* know a priori
whether these are multiple transformations or not.




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Christopher Brochu, Ph.D.

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Department of Geology
Field Museum of Natural History
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References:
- Au revoir (from me) cladistics
  - From: "John V Jackson" <jjackson@interalpha.co.uk>

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