In article <1995Jan17.163248.3175 at emba.uvm.edu>,
Brian Foley <brianf at med.uvm.edu> wrote:
>> I'm not sure what the overall point is here: To decipher the
>evolutionary tree of organisms, or the tree of Heat Shock proteins?
>If you wish to decipher the tree of oprganisms, you should look at many
>genes from different families, and not just one. Cammarano et al in
You've put your finger directly on the thing I find most mystifying
about some of these debates: that the pros in molecular phylogeny,
whom one would expect to understand these things, seem repeatedly to
lose sight of the basic distinction between gene trees and organism
trees- a distinction familiar even to relatively untutored outsiders
like me. Maybe it has something to do with the amount of ego that's
invested in some of their positions. ;-)
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