Re: Hwang et al. dataset runs

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> >Maybe you didn't make the ordered characters ordered?  
>  
> That would seem not to be the case.  I've checked over the matrix.  
  
That isn't part of the matrix. It's a line in the assumptions block in a  
Nexus file. 
  
> >I'd rather say that there are not enough of these similarities in the 
> >matrix -- assuming it isn't a problem of ordered vs. unordered --, and 
> >therefore birds and dromaeosaurids can't cluster. And then *D.* lacks 
> >something that the other dromaeosaurids have. What could that be? 
> 
> We don't necessarily need to figure out what it lacks that all other 
> dromaeosaurids have, but instead what it lacks that _Deinonychus_, 
> _Adasaurus_, _Saurornitholestes_, and _Velociraptor_ have. 
 
That's what I mean by "the other dromaeosaurids". :-) 
 
> > > ...the change in the tree is surprising, I was clearly wrong about 
> > > _Confuciusornis_.  Instead, what do we find? 
> > 
> >And why? :-o 
 
I mean, why does that clade come out, what synapomorphies does *C.* share 
with the dromies? 

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