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RE: Cladistic notation

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Mike Taylor
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:17 AM
>
> In particular:
> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/faq/s-class/phyletic/index.html
> explain terms like monophyletic, paraphyletic, etc., and defines
> notation such as Clade(A+B) and Clade(A<--B).

It might be useful to point out that the "standard notation" refered to on
that website is "standard" for this list; however, it is not presently
general usage in the technical literature.

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