Re: What _is_ the joke?

[Mickey Mortimer <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>]

Jason Michalak wrote-

> I was looking through the archives and found this
> (http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/2003Sep/msg00256.html). David, I don't get
the
> joke. What's so funny about Martin's 1997 "cladogram" besides not rooting
> it?

How timely, as I just went over his characters to make sure I include all of
them in my analysis.
Besides being unrooted, Martin has several problematic characters.
10 and 11 are opposite states of the same character.
16 and 17 are basically the same character, 16 being a consequence of 17.
16 and 18 are opposite states of the same character.
34 and 35 are the same character, or at least opposite states of the same
character.
37 is correlated with 36.
24 and 40 are correlated.
Then there's all the errors....

Mickey Mortimer