Re: Cladistic Idea (Now Tested)

[John Conway <john.a.conway@gmail.com>]

Mickey Mortimer wrote:
> In case anyone's interested, I did a quick test of Grant's idea using the TWG 
> matrix on my blog.
> http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/2011/07/testing-hardings-idea-constraining.html

It certainly an interesting comparison, but I'm not sure I would call it 
a test. There's no point using Grant's method if the results are the 
same as a vanilla cladistic analysis, right? So chucking it out on the 
basis that it doesn't agree with the standard tree is negating what you 
could have got from it in the first place.

To test it, it would be interesting to compare its results to a third 
independent analysis (molecular genetic I suppose), and seeing which 
results are closer.

That isn't doing to work for non-avian dinosaurs, obviously.


Cheers,
John



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