Talk:Phenetics

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"Phenetics must not be confused with phonetics" HA! Great little play on words. Jeeb 2 July 2005 00:20 (UTC)

Ouch! I'll need to rewrite most of this article.

This article appears to confuse Phenetics on the one hand and Numerical Phenetics (better known as Numerical Taxonomy), on the other hand. - Dendrid (talk) 06:10, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A merger between the articles

Vide this discussion the proposal has been removed. The old merger proposal with Numerical taxonomy has also been reverted. AshLin (talk) 07:30, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Phenetics has nothing to do with Linneus' classification.--Trouveur de faits (talk) 23:47, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The following text, under the heading "Differences from ME" (with ME not explained above) is, in my opinion, neither necessary nor comprehensible. Minimum evolution currently redirects to Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics), although it is not explained there. I don't think that it is helpful to the reader to have this very dense material on this page:

Like phenetics, minimum evolution uses pairwise distances, and like the molecular version of phenetics it is used for molecular analysis, but unlike phenetics it uses an optimality criterion, additive trees, tree tests, and tree scores, which places it closer to phylogenetics, and like cladistics it uses a parsimony principle. ML (maximum likelihood), BI (Bayesian Inference), clique analysis (character compatibility), and cladistics all use an optimality criterion, additive trees, tree tests, and tree scores^[1].

Sminthopsis84 (talk) 05:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not dense nor anything similar, but, in any case, the point is that it is helpful to the reader because otherwise the article would be incomplete. ME uses pairwise distance like phenetics (and also neighbour-joiniing which I forgot to mention), so it is similar to it but more similar to phylogenetics. It grew out of molecular phenetics. I should have given another reference (Van de Peer, Phylogenetic Inference Based on Distance Methods at 2.ib.unicamp.br). Also, as you point out, the MP article does not even mention ME, and says MP was invented by Fitsch but Fitsch parsimony is an optimality criterion and others were invented before--they are all MP--the 1st was by Camin-Sokal in '65. I have used Camin-Sokal myself and also Dollo and Wagner. Anyways, there should be an article on ME.--Trouveur de faits (talk) 18:40, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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