RE: PHYLIP tutorials for morphologists?

["Andrew A. Farke" <andyfarke@hotmail.com>]

There are plenty of other packages out there aside from PAUP. These packages
vary in price, quality, and features, but you can do about everything PAUP
does (and in some cases, more). There's Mesquite, NONA (now freeware,
apparently), TNT, etc. You'll see many of these packages referenced in both
the paleo- and the neontological literature.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
> Phillip Bigelow
> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 8:12 AM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: PHYLIP tutorials for morphologists?
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:03:01 +0200 David Marjanovic
> <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> writes:
> > > I see that most PHYLIP tutorials are written for the "molecular
> > people".
> > > This is most frustrating.  Are there any tutorials available
> > on-line for
> > > "morphology people"?
> >
> > Don't bother, PHYLIP can't deal with unordered multistate
> > characters. Or
> > maybe ordered ones, I forgot.
> 
> 
> A shame.  Too bad there isn't a free Open Source program that does
> everything PAUP does.
> 
> <pb>
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