More on the 'cladistics' of sequences

[David Orlovich]

On 11/06/2004, at 8:23 PM, B.J.Tindall wrote:

> In some of the literature I read I am seeing the term
> "monophyletic clade" with increasing frequency!!

Tell me about it. This morning I was going to reply to this and mention
that the last PhD thesis I marked, and the last paper I reviewed, both
did exactly that - but I thought "No, it's just a coincidence" and I
didn't bother writing.  However, this afternoon I am sitting here
reading yet another manuscript and I come across the same thing! So
"monophyletic clade" has popped up in the last three things I've read.
Spooky!

David.

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