Re: 2 questions about characters (long!)

["Ken Carpenter" <KCarpenter@dmns.org>]

If you all want to understand the cladistics terminology, I suggest that you do 
a Google search with the words "phyletic analysis" "cladistics". You'll turn up 
several on-line lecture notes from various college classes. Most of these are 
undergraduate level classes, so explains the terminology and how the analyses 
are done.

Ken

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology &
Chief Preparator
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Natural History 
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80205

Phone: (303)370-6392
Fax: (303)331-6492
email: KCarpenter@DMNS.org