RE: a closer look at Hanson 2006, Mortimer response

[Michael Mortimer <mickey_mortimer111@msn.com>]

David Peters wrote-

> My single MPT is chronologically accurate, avoids untenable  reversals, 
> puts derived characters at the tips of branches and bottom  line: you can  
> line up the taxa in a visual spectral blend like  rhipidistians emerging 
> from the swamps and morphing into humans  lurching over computers. It 
> passes any test you can put upon it. Add  as many characters as you wish. 
> Add as many taxa as you wish. Order  what you want. But remove the little 
> ones and you're sunk. So you  must ignore ontogeny in this case. And for 
> good reason.

Send me your NEXUS file and we'll see what effect ordering has on your 
matrix.  I won't distribute the matrix, of course.

Mickey Mortimer