Tom Schoenemann asked me:

> With respect to your crankiness, is this the paper by Hansen that you are 
> referring to?:
> 
> Bartoszek, K., Pienaar, J., Mostad, P., Andersson, S., & Hansen, T. F. 
> (2012). A phylogenetic comparative method for studying multivariate 
> adaptation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 314(0), 204-215.
> 
> I wrote Bartoszek to see if I could get his R code to try the method 
> mentioned in there. If I can figure out how to apply it to my data, that will 
> be great. I agree that it is clearly a mistake to assume one variable is 
> responding evolutionarily only to the current value of the other (predictor 
> variables). 

I'm glad to hear that *somebody* here thinks it is a mistake (because it really 
is).  I keep mentioning it here, and Hansen has published extensively on it, 
but everyone keeps saying "Well, my friend used it, and he got tenure, so it 
must be OK". 

The paper I saw was this one:

Hansen, Thomas F & Bartoszek, Krzysztof (2012). Interpreting the evolutionary 
regression: The interplay between observational and biological errors in 
phylogenetic comparative studies. Systematic Biology  61 (3): 413-425.  ISSN 
1063-5157.

J.F.
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Joe Felsenstein         j...@gs.washington.edu
 Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology,
 University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA

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