Three great papers (cladistics; paraphyly)

[Curtis Clark]

At 08:28 PM 1/16/02, Ken Kinman wrote:
>And I strongly believe that one aspect of that
>damage comes from the widespread cladistic error of rooting Eubacterial
>phylogenies using Metabacteria (a.k.a. "Archaea") as the outgroup.

Any way you cut it, the Metabacteria are paraphyletic, and so strict
cladists find themselves in rare agreement with Ken on this one.


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