Re: stratocladistics

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/31/99 8:15:32 AM EST, cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org writes:

<< One thing the comment does not address is the unsuitability of
 stratocladistics when biogeographic sampling is nonuniform.  If anyone
 can tell me of a terrestrial vertebrate lineage with uniform, unbiased
 biogeographic sampling, I will happily delve into stratocladistics.   >>

(1) How could you tell whether the sampling was uniform and unbiased--even in 
the unlikely case that it were?

(2) Don't papers artifically testing stratocladistics manufacture fragmented 
fossil records that assume nonuniform sampling?

(3) Isn't any kind of a sample, uniform or not, better than no sample at all? 
Even a poor sample can falsify some hypotheses.

You should delve...