Re: Pygostyles, Crises,..

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/21/00 3:26:15 AM EST, mickey_mortimer@email.msn.com 
writes:

<< I'll make a separate data matrix just for you with
 "flighty" characters deleted.  I'm sure I won't catch all of them, but most
 things related to flight are easy to see (involving arm and pectoral
 girdle).  If you or anyone else would like to inform me on flight-related
 characters not in the pectoral limb or girdle, I'll be glad to consider them
 as well.  Then I'll run PHYLIP or PAUP (if I have it in time) on the new
 censored data and see how the results are different from the standard data's
 results.  If your hypothesis is correct, we'll see secondary flightlessness,
 if not Aves will only include Archaeopteryx, Rahonavis and pygostylians. >>

Don't see how this will demonstrate anything. In secondary flightlessness, it 
is exactly the "flighty characters" that are lost.