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Re: Phylogenetic Taxonomy [was Re: Cladistic Massive Retaliation]

From: "Jonathan R. Wagner" <znc14@ttacs1.ttu.edu>

 >    Such as?  What monolphyletic group of animals cannot be expressed
 > as a common ancestor and its decendants?

A direct ancestor-descendant pair is not expressable in the normal
cladistic approach.  The ancestor is instead represented as a sister-
species of the descendent

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