Mis-Understanding Evolution (Cladomaleosauria)

[John Grehan]

I keep seeing this equation of phylocode and cladistics. This seems to be
more a propaganda claim as it is possible that all phylocodists are
cladists, but not all cladists are phylocodists.

John Grehan

At 05:18 PM 3/16/04 -0600, Ken Kinman wrote:
>Curtis,
>       Mother-daughter groups are a more accurate (applicable) biological
> "metaphor" than are sister-sister groups.  The sister group "convention"
> is a methodology that works well because extinction has made drawing
> lines (including bifurcating ones) easier, and it's useful as long as the
> convention is not abused (and forbidding all paraphyletic taxa is an
> abuse).  No wonder so many eclecticists make it a policy to simply not
> argue with "cladists", but NOT arguing with them has gotten us into the
> fix we are in today (Phylocode will soon be a reality, and it codifies
> and extends the abuses of strict cladism).  I have no more time to argue
> today, but try reading my post ("sister groups do not exist") to the
> Dinosaur Mailing List in June 2000:
>
>  http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/2000Jun/msg00510.html
>
>              --------- Ken Kinman