[Taxacom] New Cladistics program?

[Richard Jensen]

Thanks, Curtis. I was at a loss but what you have described makes good 
sense!

This may provide a better understanding on saltation - evolutionary 
leaps that are made possible by Riemannian bridges or wormholes. 
Eventually we may be able to go "Back to the Past" as well as the Future.

Dick J

Richard Jensen, Professor
Department of Biology
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: 574-284-4674



Curtis Clark wrote:
> On 2008-02-25 11:52, Richard Jensen wrote:
>   
>> I am proofreading a paper and came across this line:
>>
>> "Phylogenetic analyses were performed with PHYLIP, the Phylogeny 
>> Interference Package, using Maximum Parsimony (MP)."
>>
>> Could this be a Hennigian slip? Or, can software really interfere with 
>> our understanding of what's going on?
>>     
>
> No, it means "interference" in the physics sense. Each character has a 
> phylogenetic signal. Combining those signals as if they were wave forms 
> results in some nodes being amplified and others being canceled out. 
> This method is criticized by proponents of Quantum Phylogeny, who assert 
> that phylogenies are best characterized as streams of particles rather 
> than as waves.
>
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