Re: BCF (was New Article in Experimental Zoology)

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/26/02 3:23:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
david.marjanovic@gmx.at writes:

<< "Tentaculata" and Deuterostomia. Because
 he uses very small numbers (at most 10 or so) of hand-chosen characters as
 synapomorphies, and no computer or anything, some of his results are
 suspect. >>

Yes, Ax makes for some fun reading. Dunno why his results are any more 
suspect than computerized cladistics, though. There is, I suppose, as little 
basis for using his particular character-weighting scheme as there is for a 
weighting scheme that is a no-weighting scheme.