Re: DNA news stories: bird and mammal evolution

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

David Marjanovic wrote:

> It also says that mtDNA is generally less reliable,

Compared to... what?

I wouldn't say that mtDNA is "less reliable"; mt sequence data just has to
be interpreted very carefully, and rather differently compared to genomic
sequence data.


> I have never made predictions and will never do that.

Avoid generalizations: they're never correct.


Tim



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