Australopithecus and orangutans

[Curtis Clark]

At 11:08 AM 5/15/2003 -0400, John Grehan wrote:
>Even though by definition the rejected group of proposed
>apomorphies are now designated as homoplasies and may be considered
>parallelisms, convergences, plesiomorphies etc.,

Please look up the definitions of homoplasy and plesiomorphy. Your misuse
of these terms may be an oversight, but it might represent a fundamental
misunderstanding of phylogenetic systematics.