In a message dated 12/1/01 1:58:29 PM EST, tmk@dinosauricon.com writes: << > My understanding of a node-stem triplet is that it is a clade > comprising a node and its two descendant stem groups. I thought it was a set of three clades (a node-based and two internal stem-based ones). >> Same thing. The node-based clade is the node-stem triplet itself.