What is it about?
This paper is about the lack of evidentiary significance of ancestral character states. We wrote it because some people insist upon viewing symplesiomorphy as "homology," which in our opinion fails to take into account the fundamentally hierarchical nature of homologous features.
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Why is it important?
This is a paper about the epistemology of character state transformation.
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This page is a summary of: About nothing, Cladistics, August 2013, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/cla.12050.
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