Re: Using "P" in a Cladistic Engine

["Nick Gardner" <n_gardner637@hotmail.com>]

I started using doing that after that conversation we (Jaime and I) had 
awhile back offlist.  Recently, I learned how important it really was.  
While searching on the internet for more efficient phylogeny programs 
(haven't found a free one better than PHYLIP yet, though), I came across a 
Nexus Data File Editor.  It's much easier to code using these since you can 
see what character you are coding for on-screen.  Just for kicks, I ran the 
characters and taxa from the chapter Holtz wrote for Dinosaurs: A Time and 
Place (pp. 31-38) after HP Tom Holtz sent it to me offlist, thanks again. =) 
I need to code caenagnathoids as a polymorphic for 7 and I decided to try 
both ways.  You can recover less polytomies by using the more precise 
codings of (01) as opposed to (p).


NG

PS, I realize that the "analysis" on pp. 33 is not neccessarily 
comprehensive enough to appropriately test the interrelationships of 
avetheropods.  ^_^

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