Re: New paper on Neoaves

[Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>]

At 21:53 2006-08-12, David Marjanovic wrote:

> Since this was 1998 (you know, when some people honestly believed Rodentia 
> was paraphyletic to the rest of Placentalia, and Passeriformes the 
> sister-group to all other extant birds), I'll simply blame the model, and 
> perhaps the fact that Bayesian analysis was not yet available.

I don't think anyone who actually *knows* anything about avian systematics 
ever seriously believed that Passeriformes is the sister-group to all other 
extant birds.

Tommy Tyrberg