Adelphotaxon

[Bill Shear]

>'Adelphotaxon' is indeed a synonym to 'sister group'. It was introduced by
>Peter Ax in his 1984 book Das Phylogenetische System (Gustav Fischer,
>Jena), first mentioned on p. 16, but explicitely defined on p. 47. The
>English edition appeared in 1987 with John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and New
>York (The Phylogenetic System). I do not know whether or not the pagination
>of the English version is identical to the German.
>
>
Years ago, when that field was in its infancy and coining terms right and
left, and ecologist was defined as someone who called a shovel a geotome.
Is a cladist someone who calls a sister group an adelphotaxon?

Bill Shear
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