Re: Phylogenetic question for John Harshman

Ron O wrote:
On Aug 30, 11:08 am, Augray <aug...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:54:49 -0700 (PDT), spintronic
<spintro...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<4f4eea03-308f-4b98-b418-321f238e6...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :





A new life form develops and has a single unit of
Heredity. Denoted by a single letter.
Upon every successive modification we re-catagorise
the gene using the next letter in the alphabet. The first
one is "A", & With time, this unit starts to undergo
modification, "A" --->"B", "B" --->"C" etc.
Eventually a new unit of heriditary is gained, which also
undergoes it's own modification, etc etc.
I have placed each unit in a horizontal array. With each box depicted
by integers in the order the genes were gained horizontally.
Our first unit undergoes 3 modifications.
. 1
[A]
[B]
[C]
Either generation now picks up a new unit of Heredity [B] for example,
which now becomes
.1 . 2
[A]
[B][A]
[C]
Then another one
. 1 . 2
[A][A]
[B][A]
[C]
Now either units can undergo modification
. 1. 2
[A][B]
[C][A]
[C][A]
Etc etc.
With an array upto 5 genes (Obviously more could be
added, but for simplicity... ) (And "-" denotes no unit yet)
.1 . 2 . 3. 4 . 5
[A] [-] [-] [-] [-]
Could you make any nested hierarchy you like, as
detailed as possible?
I have to admit that the way that you phrase your question is rather
confusing, but I'll take a stab at it:

SPI NIG NOR ANT
\ / \ /
EVO LVE
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
NOW


I fixed your tree to make more sense.

Instead of going round and round with the jerk get him to use real
data.

Didn't Harshman get a post of the month nomination for demonstrating
phylogenetic analysis using some mitochondrial gene?

Yes, but sequence is apparently irrelevant. Spintronic is trying to teach us all some lesson, possibly that you can make a good phylogeny using only the arbitrary part numbers of fuel injectors.

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