Re: Poisson Distribution

On Mar 16, 9:41 am, John Harshman <jharshman.diespam...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Seanpit wrote:
On Mar 16, 7:35 am, Seanpit <sean...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Let me make my diagram more clear to you - if possible:

You *must* start composing these in an equally spaced font. This is
clearly garbled.



                             _________Neandertal
                           /
             _______/             __ Human W
 A -------/______________/___ Human B
                           \ _________Human C
                                    \ ____Human D
                                         \ _Human E

The W Sub-Branch is closest to Neandertals among the modern-human
branch with a closest "relationship" to Human B and a farthest
"relationship" to Human E.  Human W just so happens to be "closer" to
the Neandertal than to Human E.

What do you mean by "relationship"? As far as I can tell from the
garbled tree, Human W is equally closely related to all other humans.

The reason why HW has its own branch is because it has a sequential
mutational difference compared to all the other branches. This
difference is minimal compared to HB and most significant compared to
HE (i.e., more mutational differences).

Now in fact you seem to have a case here in which one human is both part
of the farthest human pair and the closest to neanderthal; at least I
could construct a tree in which that was true. But I have already shown
you several trees in which this is not true. It relies on a particular
combination of branch lengths. We are quite unlikely to see that
combination; if we did, you should be able to show a statistically
significant branch separating Human W from other humans. (Note that it
would also be possible to have a significant branch without achieving
the effect you want.)

I'm not sure what you are talking about here. Perhaps a diagram will
help to illustrate what I'm talking about a bit more:

http://www.detectingdesign.com/images/EarlyMan/Neandertal-Human%20Phylogeny%202.jpg

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com


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