RE: Gaia theropod follow-up: a "new" phylogeny

["ekaterina amalitzkaya" <eamalitz@hotmail.com>]

In all due fairness despite the protests by the smart anti-evolutionists on 
the list one point made by this tree of Dr. Holtz is of interest, the areas 
of theropod phylogeny that need new work are very well identified. This may 
both come from good re-description or from the explorations of people like 
Sereno. I suspect this has nothing to do with the validity of cladistic 
methodologies in these phylogenetic depths. It is not a a question of deep 
animal phylogeny where the data is surprising lesser than even for 
dinosaurs. So there is no point debating the validity of cladistic 
approaches but trying to make the data more acessible and well represented 
like in the more modern areas of evolutionary biology
EA
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