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

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Michael Habib wrote:

> However, Mayr's analyses seem to have a similar trend wherein the analyses 
> consistently find groups previously considered "convergent" to be sister 
> taxa instead (such as penguins and plotopterids).

Yes, but the evidence for penguin-plotopterid convergence was never strong.  
AFAIK, Mayr's analysis is the only one that actually tested 
penguin-plotopterid relationships using a parsimony-based phylogenetic 
method.

Cheers

Tim

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