Striking a balance, weighting and Cladistics

[Zdenìk Skála]

> another branch of the tree of life. Recent developments by Mike Steel et
> al. nicely illustrate this by the mathematical demonstration that standard
> cladistics may be turned into a "maximum likekihood" approach... given
that
> we assume "no common mechanism" for the evolution of the characters
> throughout the cladogram.
Agree; perhaps only to add (what may seem trivial): "no common mechanism"
does not mean "no general assumption about the phylogeny" (e.g. sufficiently
low frequency of the character-state changes).
Best!
Zdenek Skala



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