It's been a while since I had to think about this, but when I did last
have to this was a justification I used for what I think is pretty much
the same as your viewpoint:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8246516
Rich
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Rich Grenyer,
Hi Dan,
Even though this is well-trodden ground in some respects (by the likes of
TG and others), I have often-enough fielded questions about
size-correction and principal components analysis on species data (or
encountered those who see nothing wrong with ignoring phylogeny in said
