I read both the posts and frankly didnt' get the impression that Mr/Ms Newton had much personal knowledge of Rubber Boas other than what they had read in the Rodriguez-Robles paper.



In fact, the two posts are little more than a summary of that paper's findings.



My suspicions are that Mr/Ms Newton is a graduate (or possibly undergraduate) student that has some training in phylogenetic analysis but with limited experience with mtDNA sequence data.



I don't mean these remarks to be disparaging in any way. It was a good review of the data presented in the paper. But when I see a post giving the details of a 3 year old paper which has been discussed on that forum many times, I don't get the feeling that the author is up to date with Rubber Boa research.
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Chris Harrison

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• R.S. Newton critiques - RichardFHoyer, Tue Jul 22 13:50:12 2003
• RE: R.S. Newton critiques - wulf, Tue Jul 22 23:45:03 2003
• RE: R.S. Newton critiques - RichardFHoyer, Wed Jul 23 11:15:03 2003
• RE: R.S. Newton critiques - WW, Wed Jul 23 10:03:16 2003
• RE: R.S. Newton critiques - RichardFHoyer, Wed Jul 23 11:40:38 2003
• I got a slightly different impression from the posts.... - chrish, Thu Jul 24 10:23:14 2003
• RE: I got a slightly different impression from the posts.... - RichardFHoyer, Thu Jul 24 14:19:50 2003
• RE: I got a slightly different impression from the posts.... - RSNewton, Fri Aug 1 23:53:23 2003
• RE: I got a slightly different impression from the posts.... - RSNewton, Sat Aug 2 00:43:22 2003