[Taxacom] DNA contamination

[Geoff Read]

".. in which case you intuit that DNA has more manna"

Since you've used Manna before recently in a similar context (Mar 28: "For
Stuessy, the dendrogram still has manna") I suspect a slip of the brain
for Mana, the handy Polynesian-origin word commonly used for measuring a
person's (high) standing and prestige in the community. I only know Manna
as mythical nourishment for Iraelites in Exodus, and perhaps at a stretch
the sap of Fraxinus ornus.

Mana - A strength, potency or force, also in modern times used in gaming
as units of magical power.


Geoff

>>> On 3/04/2011 at 4:44 a.m., "Richard Zander" <Richard.Zander at mobot.org>
wrote:
> Molecular data support ALL trees, just some more than others. They cannot
> falsify morphological results. If morphological results are so certain they
> falsify the probabilistic molecular tree, then a suboptimal molecular
tree is
> required so both fit theory (unless you are theory‑free, in which
case you
> intuit that DNA has more manna). [...]