Striking a balance, weighting and Cladistics

Curtis Clark jcclark at CSUPOMONA.EDU
Wed Feb 14 22:47:46 CST 2001


At 10:19 PM 2/14/01, Gabriel A. Eickhoff wrote:
>   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.

[...]

>  Conceptually, this understanding does not accept weighting by any means.

Farris was once a proponent of a posteriori weighting. Is he still?



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