Re: Pelvis

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Taylor" <mike@indexdata.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:00 AM

> I think the biggest danger of cladistics is that it's so easy to
> misinterpret the results as being much more solidly established than
> they really are.  Perhaps all papers containing cladistic analyses
> should have to use the heading "WARNING - LARK'S VOMIT"
> just before the results of the analysis?

I think what's going on is that people are just misled by two conflicting 
traditions: by convention, cladograms almost never contain stippled lines, 
while precladistic phylogenetic trees consist mostly of stippled lines.

Instead, cladograms ideally contain _quantitative_ ( = scientific) 
equivalents of stippled lines, such as bootstrap and Bremer support values. 
Of course they often don't...