Abstract:Explicit, ad hoc character weighting, widely dismissed by cladists as too subjective for practical application, can be useful in resolving difficult instances of homoplasy. Such weighting should be av...Explicit, ad hoc character weighting, widely dismissed by cladists as too subjective for practical application, can be useful in resolving difficult instances of homoplasy. Such weighting should be avoided to the extent possible, and should only be tried when critical reexamination of the evidence and the parsimony criterion have failed. So long as such uses of weighting are fully explicit and their results are viewed as tentative solutions, they support formulations of hypotheses where none might otherwise be possible. [Character weighting; cladistics; phylogenetics; convergence; homoplasy.]Read More
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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