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IS FARRIS OPTIMIZATION PERFECT?: THREE‐TAXON STATEMENTS AND MULTIPLE BRANCHING
Author(s) -
Platnick Norman I.,
Humphries Christopher J.,
Nelson Gareth,
Williams David M.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1996.tb00011.x
Subject(s) - branching (polymer chemistry) , taxon , biology , mathematics , zoology , evolutionary biology , botany , chemistry , organic chemistry
— The three‐taxon approach to phylogenetic analysis separates the universe of cladograms into a larger number of classes of solutions showing decreasing degrees of fit to data than does conventional Farris optimization. The three‐taxon approach applies to character analysis Nelson and Platnick's interpretation 2 of multiple branching in cladograms.