Re: Dinosaurs Phylogenetic Tree for Matlab.

["Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

There's a couple of people around here carried away with bright colors and 
19th century Latin, Marc.   And they've read no phylogenetic studies of any 
thing more recent than the end-Cretaceous extinction.   This leaves things 
quite clear to them.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Spencer" <marc.r.spencer@gmail.com>
To: <villandra@austin.rr.com>
Cc: <df9465@yahoo.co.uk>; "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: Dinosaurs Phylogenetic Tree for Matlab.


I'll attempt a reductio ad absurdum:

So, by your reasoning, diagenetic processes (e.g., compaction,
pressure dissolution, cementation, replacement, recrystallization) are
based on molecular data such as DNA?  Curious...




On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Very lovely. Someone quite got carried away with their crayons. But not
> the same skill with words. They didn't say where they got all that
> dinosaur DNA to draw such a lovely and complex phylogenetic tree!
>
> Denver, sound out the word, very slowly. phylogenetic. Not just a
> dinosaur family tree, but based on genetics. .
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, TX
> tiggernut24@yahoo.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denver Fowler" <df9465@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "DML" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Dinosaurs Phylogenetic Tree for Matlab.
>
>
> > I'd be more insulting, but clearly Dora doesn't read anything anyone else
> > ever posts to these lists, so she won't mind me calling her out on such
> > astounding ignorance.
> >
> > Hey look Dora, pretty colours:
> >
> >
> > http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/supertree.jpg
> >
> > One of about a thousand dinosaur phylogenetic analyses.



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