Cladistic hypotheses

[E. Parmasto]

Richard Zander, 23 Nov 2005 14:25:38:
   > A cladogram is produced from reasonable data
by a computer using a
> particular reasonable evolutionary model and some assumptions...
>
   A cladogram is a *metahypothesis* based on
hypotheses-based computer programs, on
taxonomists' hypotheses on homologies of
characters (character states) used, on a hypothetical
evolutionary model, on hypotheses-based selection
of (sometimes numerous) cladograms by the
taxonomists, &c. Consequently, a (published,
released) cladogram is a hypothesis proposed by
taxonomists, not by a PC.
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