Re: What _is_ the joke?

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 1:01 AM

> 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?

Well... "joke" is not a good wording... it looks like Martin didn't notice
that the tree wasn't rooted, which implies he didn't know how to make a
taxon the outgroup

> 16 and 17 are basically the same character, 16 being a consequence of 17.
> 16 and 18 are opposite states of the same character.

In other words: this one character was tripled. Looks like Martin didn't
even understand the difference between "character" and "character state"...

> Then there's all the errors....

Yep. And the size of the matrix, which is ridiculously small.