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[James Francis Lyons-Weiler]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Don Colless wrote:

>      Re trees from "random" data: a matrix of random numbers is,
> surprisingly to some perhaps, a perfectly possible result of an
> evolutionary history. And I can assure viewers that the results
> of processing such matrices look very much the same as those from
> real data. I can't imagine a test that would (blindfold)
> distinguish the sets of trees derived from real data on the one
> hand and random data on the other.
>
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