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Classification or Phylogenetic Estimates?

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[m]3ta is a method that seeks to implement a taxic view of homology. The method is consistent with Patterson's tests for discriminating homology from nonhomology. Contrary to the claims of Kluge and Farris, (1999, Cladistics 15, 205–212), m3ta is not a phenetic method—nor does it necessarily place the basal split in a tree between the phenetically most divergent taxa. [m]3ta does not seek to accurately recover phylogeny but rather it seeks to maximize the information content of taxic homology propositions. [m]3ta is a method of classification in which the unit of analysis is the relation of homology. [m]3ta differs from all phylogenetic methods because the units of analyses in phylogenetic methods, including sca, are transformation series.

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Robert W. Scotland Mark A. Carine

Title: Classification or Phylogenetic Estimates?

Description:

[m]3ta is a method that seeks to implement a taxic view of homology.

The method is consistent with Patterson's tests for discriminating homology from nonhomology.

Contrary to the claims of Kluge and Farris, (1999, Cladistics 15, 205–212), m3ta is not a phenetic method—nor does it necessarily place the basal split in a tree between the phenetically most divergent taxa.

[m]3ta does not seek to accurately recover phylogeny but rather it seeks to maximize the information content of taxic homology propositions.

[m]3ta is a method of classification in which the unit of analysis is the relation of homology.

[m]3ta differs from all phylogenetic methods because the units of analyses in phylogenetic methods, including sca, are transformation series.

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