Fwd: Re: Character Polarity (from Molecular taxonomy: on way out?)

[Curtis Clark]

On 2005-07-20 08:48, Jim Whitfield wrote:
> Meacham, C. A. 1984.  The role of hypothesized direction of
> characters in the estimation of evolutionary history.  Taxon 33:
> 26-38.

Another old paper along similar lines is

Clark, Curtis and Daniel J. Curran. 1986. Outgroup analysis, homoplasy,
and global parsimony: A response to Maddison, Donoghue, and Maddison.
Syst. Zool. 35:150-154.

which you can download at
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/pdf/r1986systzool2.pdf

As I remembered, we had some specific criticisms of some parts of
Meacham's paper, and agreements with others.

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