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To: Right Wing Professor
Genetics has occasionally led to rearrangements of the morphological tree, but I can't think of an obvious contradiction. Care to cite one

From what I've read the contortions of the geneolical tree are at a very basic, fundamental level...

As Doolittle indicates, from the base of the tree of life, it is not "tree-like." In the "bush" below (Figure 3), it is impossible to reconstruct such trees, as the observed distribution of characters create something which looks more like a tangled thicket or a bush. The three major "domains" of life--Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya have a distribution of characteristics which does not allow a tree to be constructed to describe their alleged ancestral relationships. This is due to a character distribution which is not what one would predict if they inherited their genes through common ancestry

957 posted on 05/16/2003 1:01:26 PM PDT by Galatians513
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To: Galatians513
I'm afraid you misread my request. I asked for a citation, not a gob of pasted text from an unknown source. i'd like to know what specific genetic evidence contradicts what specific morphological evidence, with a reference to the original source so I can check it.
961 posted on 05/16/2003 1:28:32 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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