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Re: FEATHERED THEROPODS

In a message dated 98-09-28 03:03:40 EDT, smithjb@sas.upenn.edu writes:

<< My problems with the method remain what they have always been:
        the subjectivity of character selection
        the difficulty of cladistics to take intra and intertaxonomic 
 morphological variation into account
        the fact that we call cladograms hypotheses but have difficulty 
 in testing them with any other mechanism but another cladogram. >>

You can add "possibility of being misled by convergence" to this list.