Fwd: Re: [TAXACOM] Lucy in Newsweek

[John Grehan]

At 05:32 PM 3/31/2004 -0800, Curtis Clark wrote:
>At 22:04 2004-03-30, John Grehan wrote:
>>>Cladistics is a method, not a type of data. Gary knows that. I'm guessing
>>>that his error is based in the assumption that since early DNA work used
>>>"phenetic" methods, nothing better exists.
>>
>>This is just conjecture.
>
>Which part?

That Gary does not understand DNA and that he is not familiar with current
methods.

John Grehan



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