Australopithecus and orangutans

[P.Hovenkamp]

At 10:07 AM 5/15/03 -0500, Richard Jensen wrote:

>With advent of the outgroup approach, the practice of constructing
>character-state trees a priori went by the wayside.  I don't know of anyone
>working in cladistics today he begins by constructing character-state trees
>independently for each character.

Branham & Wenzel in a recent issue of Cladistics (19: 1-22) distinguish
ordered from unordered characters in a morphological analysis of fireflies.
The multistate ordered characters are in fact simple character state trees.
The practice is alive and kicking.


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