Publishing on human origins

[John Grehan]

At 07:58 PM 5/30/04 +0200, pierre deleporte wrote:

>OK, let's take it this way, no problem.
>Molecuar data, when analysed ckadistically, are a priori sorted out in
>primitive and dereved characters.
>The primitive state is the state in the outgroup (this is the outgroup
>criterion). This is prior the analysis. Hence these characters are
>"cladistic" in your view.

If this were the case for molecular data then I would not have an argument
about molecular characters not being cladistic. Please provide reference to
a published example as this is not an approach used in hominoid molecular
systematics so far as I can see.

John Grehan