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In a message dated 7/26/2005 3:59:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tijawi@yahoo.com writes:
The furcula is just one character. And here we have the perennial problem of cladistics: a host of
evolutionarily labile junk characters can overwhelm an important character and
completely subvert an analysis. And there's no way to tell, so we live
in the fool's paradise that cladistic analysis invents.
Hey, crurotarsal ankle is just one character. So why isn't Dave Peters's
cladogram with Lotosaurus as sister group of Ornithischia correct? He found lots
of ornithischian characters in Lotosaurus.
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