Cladistics in Science

[gmbra@cygnus.uwa.edu.au]

A recent issue of Science (11th June, Vol 284, 1999) has an article by Fox,
Fisher and Leighton on a comparison of cladistics vs stratocladistics. It
claims stratocladistics is much better at recovering the "real" phylogeny
than conventional cladistics is. Trouble is, I don't understand enough
cladistics to evaluate the conclusions. It would be most informative if one
or more of the cladistic experts on this list could post a potted summary
of this paper and their response to the conclusions and implications (if
any) for dinosaur phylogenies. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be
interested in your views. Any takers?
Thanks
Graeme Worth