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RE: A plea to theropod workers- Code the Taxa in Your Analyses
Based solely on the etymology, one would have to side with Tom and Brad:
Mickey's preferential analysis is preferrable, in my opinion, to precede the
formation of a cladogram through a phylogenetic matrix, but it is hardly
synonymous to have a thourough analytical process to both preceed and follow
the formation of a tree (especially when TNT [which is FREE, Brad] and PAUP
create THOUSANDS of cladograms) and be identical to said formation.
Cheers,
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> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:10:11 +0100
> From: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: A plea to theropod workers- Code the Taxa in Your Analyses
>
>> Arguably, it's a "diagram" that shows "clades", however the topology
>> was determined. (For example, a supertree analysis can also produce a
>> cladogram.) I gotta side with Brad on that one.
>
> That would make every phylogenetic tree a cladogram.
>
> We have two terms, and we have two meanings that often need to be
> distinguished...
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