Anatolian Branching

[David L. White]

> As was discussed at great length last year before the Greater Anatolia collo-
> quium, the Ringe-Taylor-Warnow cladistic tree is fundamentally flawed in that
> one of the characteristics used to generate it is equivalent to "Anatolian
> branched off first".  So it is irrelevant to the question of when who left
> who.

        Is this really an assumption rather than a conclusion?  That would
indeed severely lessen the validity of the resulting tree.

Dr. David L. White