Re: Hwang et al. dataset runs (long, responding to Mickey and David both)

["Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>]

Nick Gardner wrote-

> Egh, I see now, there's Heuristic Search.  I'm using that now.

Looks like we found the problem.

> Why did you include _Citipati_, or are you referring to GI 100/42?

Yup, referring to IGM 100/42.  Conchoraptor was a bit trickier to justify
including, as it was only mentioned in the appendix of PDW.  Of course, ZPAL
MgD-I/95 (which Paul illustrates as Ingenia yanshini, if I recall) is
probably close to Conchoraptor.  Oh, I kept Sinraptor as an outgroup too,
though it wasn't known in 1988.

> I re-ran the analysis.  The proper multistate characters are ordered, I
did
> the following.
>
> 1. Opened PAUP
> 2. Opened the nexus file
> 3. Used the command "HSearch"
> 4. Used the command "ShowTrees"

Try "contree" for the consensus tree.

> Pretty standard, I suppose. I wonder what would happen in these analyses
if
> more basal birds were included. Has anyone ever tried including
> _Shenzhouraptor_, _Sapeornis_, etc. in these analyses?

Should be easy enough, but I find making my own analyses more useful than
adding to others'.

> Out of curiousity, how can this be known? _Adasaurus_ has braincase
> material? There's a new one on me.

Presumedly Adasaurus clades with some even more exclusive dromaeosaurid
group in that tree, based on pelvic or pedal characters.  Thus it is inside
the dromaeosaurid clade diagnosed by the cranial characters you listed.
Adasaurus might actually include braincase material, BTW, although the AMNH
team hasn't coded it for anything except what's been published.

Mickey Mortimer