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Re: Phylogenies, science, tea-time and more...
--- David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> I hate to spoil all the fun... but apparently someone needs to kill the joke
> by explaining it: Nick is parodizing the way ornithischian phylogenetics is
> almost always done. By applying it to theropods, he demonstrates what
> nonsense results when one only puts a few skulls into one's matrix. He is
> crying desperately for someone to do a serious phylogenetic analysis of
> Ornithischia. (Probably he'll end up doing it himself, alone.)
Oh... If that's the case, I seriously must be on retardtion mode to have missed
that. For a while,
i thought Nick had genuinly gone nuts & lost his marbles.
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