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CKing
at Sat Nov 15 17:57:06 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CKing ]
Once again, you avoided answering the question of how you are going to refute Heise et al.'s finding that Atractaspis is an elapid, which contradicts your "best guess" tree. It may be because you are not a taxonomist, unlike your collaborator WW. Your collaborator claims that Heise et al.'s neighbor-joining method is "unsophisticated." That may be so, but their placement of Atractaspis within the Elapidae is corroborated by most systematists who worked with this taxon. It is also corroborated by tooth morphology, since Atractaspis has the hollow fangs that are characteristic of elpaids. Sophisticated or not, it is contradictory data. You can run but you cannot hide from contradictory data.
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