Fw: An odd paper request

[Dawid Mazurek <dawidmazurek@wp.pl>]

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From: "Dawid Mazurek" <dawidmazurek@wp.pl>
To: <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: An odd paper request


> > I haven't read enough of the paper to tell if it requires the assumptions 
> > that the fossil record _and_ our knowledge of it are nearly complete... 
> > though stratophenetics does, and Dzik is, as far as I know, the world's 
> > leading proponent of stratophenetics... (Stratophenetics is, if I've 
> > understood it correctly, an attempt to take the old approach of "just 
> > seeing" phylogeny in the fossil record and make it quantifiable.)
>
> Well, I think that stratophenecist doesn't assumpt that the fossil record 
> is ideal, he just assumpts that no major turnovers have happend when we 
> had our eyes closed. It's just strict parsimony. Occam's Razor makes 
> stratophenecist to connect all the taxons using as small amount of lines 
> as possible. I see it that way, though I wouldn't call myself a 
> stratophenetics sympathizer.
> DM