Re: Reconstructing a future language

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Reconstructing a future language
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> > Explain.
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> > Torsten
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> It's shared innovations and their order that count, not overall

similarity. To give an example from zoology, elephants and tenrecs
are more closely related to each other than either group is to
shrews, moles or hedgehogs, but morphologically tenrecs "cluster"
with shrews, moles, hedgehogs and other "insectivores", and were
until recently classified among them. Crocodiles are more closely
related to birds than to lizards.

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> Piotr

I think you're making unwarranted assumptions about the metric they
used (but you might of course be right). I'll get back with the
reference tomorrow, so you can see for yourself.

Torsten