>>Utiger et al. and even Kluge do not lead the field of herpetology. Most of the leaders are not Hennigians. Some of those who are using the cladistic method are beginning to pay more attention to character homology, unlike the self-proclaimed "leaders" of herpetology.



Just shows how little you know.



Character homology is *central* to the Hennigian approach. The better cladistic studies contain abundant discussions of character states and homology.



As to self-proclaimed leaders... - they are not self-proclaimed, they lead through producing the most influential papers that the most people cite, and are recognised for that. And, at the moment, they happen to be people like Arnold Kluge, Michael Lee, Olivier Rieppel, Kevin de Queiroz, Jacques Gauthier, and others, all of them cladists, not the greats of the 1950s and 1960s (who led then by being the best at the time, and brilliant they were, too), and whose word you seem to regard as final on everything. Deal with it.



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