[Taxacom] clique analysis in texbooks (was: Evolution of, human-ape relationships...)

[Richard Petit]

> IMO, morphological cladograms, if you fiddle with them enough, can make
> a fine natural key. This would be good guidance to evolutionary
> relationships, and one might expect such morphological relationships to
> be different from the relationships in molecular trees for reasons I've
> gone on and on about. 

This demonstrates the analogy I brought up a year or two ago about weighing pigs. "Fiddling" with a cladogram is exactly the same as "taking out rocks you might have guessed wrong and replacing them with rocks you think you can guess better."

dick p.