RE: Philosophies for Character Ordering

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Tim Williams (twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com) wrote:

<What about (say) the transformation of caudals in titanosaurs: (1) 
procoelous; (2) amphicoelous; (3) opisthocoelous.  A given caudal may have
 switched from (1) --> (3) without passing through (2).>

  This does not validate that the series asusmption is logical. Just that
in a given case, the condition is either there or not. In the titanosaur
caudal series, I would argue as I did in the previous post for all
characters, that it be treated as unordered. Ordering the characters is,
again, a restrictive process.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


        
                
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