Re: Apomorphy-based definitions

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/27/02 6:47:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
david.marjanovic@gmx.at writes:

<< Then we use the characters to find out whether it falls above or
 below some split, and then we use this hypothesis to tell which taxon it
 belongs to. >>

The point I was trying to make is that you can't always use characters to 
find out whether a species falls above or below some split, because the split 
almost always occurs independently of the acquisition of characters.