On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
Some additional news items with interviews:On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:Also, the reply (again, behind a pay wall):Baron et al. replyMatthew G. Baron, David B. Norman & Paul M. Barrett (2017)Nature 551, E4âE5 (02 November 2017)Âdoi: 10.1038/nature24012On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:Ben CreislerA new paper:Max C. Langer, MartÃn D. Ezcurra, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Michael J. Benton, Fabien Knoll, Blair W. McPhee, Fernando E. Novas, Diego Pol & Stephen L. Brusatte (2017)Untangling the dinosaur family tree.Nature 551, E1âE3 (02 November 2017)Âdoi:10.1038/nature24011The article itself is behind a pay wall but the supplementary material is free:From the supp:"...[O]ur dataset does not provide statistically significant support for Saurischia over Ornithoscelida, even though Saurischia is a more parsimonious explanation of our data.Â....Finally, the analysis of our modified matrix (without the addition of new taxa, such that only the taxon sample of Baron et al. [2017] is analyzed) resulted in >500,000 MPTs of 1,708 steps (CI: 0.3085, RI: 0.6792), the strict consensus of which (Fig. S2a) also shows a traditional monophyletic Saurischia. In this case, three additional steps are necessary to recover Ornithoscelida..."***News:Time to rewrite the dinosaur textbooks? Not quite yet