Characters.

[David Orlovich]

On 25/06/2004, at 12:57 AM, John Grehan wrote:
>
> ok I did. This is probably a consequence of my use of a PAUP program
> from some years ago where there was a choice one could make for
> including or exlcuing autapomorphies. I would not use them. Since no
> one does then

Hi John et al.,

Excluding the autapomorphies doesn't change the tree topology anyway
(since they always map on to the terminal branches).  You do this in
PAUP just so the consistency index is calculated without them -
otherwise the consistency index is inflated by characters that played
no part in the calculation of the most parsimonious tree.

Cheers, David.

Dr David Orlovich,
Department of Botany,
University of Otago,
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