Leandro Jones replied to Stephane Bouee: > One could argue that your characters are not defined using a > phylogenetic criterion; that is, when performing a phylogenetic > analysis (either by ML or Parsimony), you have to assume that your > dataset is made of homology hypotheses. That is, one could argue that > your data are based on similarity relationships rather than on > hypotheses of historical transformations. > Having this in mind, it is questionable whether, using these data, any > method could produce an acceptable estimate of the phylogeny of your > group of interest.
If one simply measures the same character in different species, is that not good enough? My curiousity is because I suspect that if Stephane had coded his characters 0/1 before trying to analyze them, they would then be accepted as "made of homology hypotheses". J.F. ---- Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo
