[Taxacom] Ladderising phylogenetic trees

[Curtis Clark]

On 3/9/2010 1:39 PM, Kenneth Kinman wrote:

>       I was looking at Laura Novick's webpage, and I am a little troubled
> by one statement:  "Our analyses documented persistent misconceptions...
> Evolution as an anagenic rather than a cladogenic process."
>        Perhaps the persistent misconception is actually hers in assuming
> that speciation is always cladogenic?  I would think a psychologist
> would be a little more open-minded about it.

"Bad anagenesis" is the belief that modern forms are descended from 
other modern forms ("Humans are descended from monkeys"). I found this 
belief common among "pre-evolutionary" students. Perhaps that's what she 
means.