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new paleo software




Paleonetters,

I wish to announce the first beta release (and my first attempt at 
authoring)  of a freeware Macintosh program to the paleo community.
  
TaxDaddy is a taxonomic database and diversity analysis program for 
Macintosh computers. TaxDaddy can be used to keep track of all of your 
taxonomic data and can tailored to personal needs with many user defined 
fields for taxonomic names, ranges, distributions, synonymies, 
descriptions, etc... You can also incorporate scanned images or other 
pictures into your data records. TaxDaddy can do complex and/or/not 
searches. The program can calculate (and plot) taxonomic diversity, 
originations, and extinctions as well as their proportions and standard 
errors and survivorship curves. TaxDaddy can import and export data and 
graphics to/from spreadsheet or other database programs.

Taxdaddy is now available on the infomac and umich archives or their 
mirrors and should shortly be available in the paleonet ftp 
archives. In a pinch, I could send the program (orthe  HyperCard stack 
version) as an email attachment for those who don't have ftp access.

-Chris

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| Christopher A. McRoberts  palo008@rzbox.uni-wuerzburg.de |
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|   Institute for Paleontology, University of Wuerzburg    |
|       Pleicherwall 1, D-97070 Wuerzburg, Germany         |
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