As Cladistics and "Eclecticism", Aves, paraphyly flow on

[Thomas Lammers]

At 01:06 PM 2/4/02 -0500, Dave Walter wrote:
>...Cladograms represent testable hypotheses

And so does any good ol' fashioned classification, arrived at by the most
subjective seat-of-the-pants b'guess-'n'-b'gosh approach.  It is tested by
adding data that did not go into its original construction.  Non-cladistic
hypotheses that go back to Engler & Prantl or Bessey have been tested in
the past decade using molecular biology,  and before that using chromosome
numbers, etc.



Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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