Re: Livezey and Zusi's big bird morph analysis [...]

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

Who will make the sacrifice and buy the book with the data matrix? :-)

> What really makes me raise an eyebrow is that Livezey and Zusi not
> only find a grebe/loon clade, but also a owl/falconiform clade

This one, however, is also found by the last few molecular analyses, as well 
as by Mayr taking *Messelastur* and the like into account.

> a falconiform clade including cathartids

What's so bad about that one?