Re: REALLY good introduction to cladistics!!

[Graydon <graydon@dsl.ca>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:58:34AM -0400, philidor11@snet.net scripsit:
> So they are willing to assume that direct ancestors can be identified 
> in the second window discussion, but are unwilling to assume 
> an amniotic egg for an animal that far up the amniotic branch? 

Or 'amniotic egg' is the code for the basal shelled-egg condition, and
if T. rex were somehow discovered to be oviviviparous, say, it would
have to be coded differently.

Not quite the same thing as a skull character with a large sample size
for confidence.

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