Striking a balance, weighting and Cladistics

[Gabriel A. Eickhoff]

Richard and others,
  What I'm refering to by "proper cladistics" is post Hennigian phylogenetic
systematics. Mainly, taken from that and as defined and revised by Arnold
Kluge and Steve Farris.

> I wasn't aware that there was such a thing as "proper cladistics."  What
> constitutes proper cladistics?

 Conceptually, this understanding does not accept weighting by any means. As
I'm sure you know it prefers the more equal opportunity employment of
characteristics without subjective or artifical reasoning behind their
importance...in terms of making a valid evolutionary statments about
phylogeny. Whereas chaps such as Walt Bock at Columbia and Fred Szalay
avidly push for such weighting schemes, contra Hennig 1966.

-Gabe
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Gabriel A. Eickhoff
University of Michigan
Museum of Zoology
Ann Arbor, MI
48105
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