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Re: Question(s) about Cladistics and PhyloCode



Chiappe 1997:32 ("_Archaeopteryx_ plus extinct
birds and all descendants of their most recent common ancestor")

Of course this doesn't count as a definition (what are "extinct birds", and the MRCA itself is not included). Is the 1992 version similar?


Sereno 1997:459 ("_Archaeopteryx_, Passeriformes, and their common
ancestor and all descendants")

While (technically) this doesn't explain the "descendants of what" question, the intent is obvious.