Please explain this cladogram to us all, since you portray yourself as knowing all about them:
And finally, superstar -
Though I never made such a claim, sure! To begin with, a cladogram (this being one of many, some of which look very different) is an intelligently designed diagram that works off the assumed “ancestor of the gaps” notion.
It is a man-made chart meant to represent all the creatures (in a group) that allegedly share a common ancestor, and attempts to display (in very creative fashion) how these groups or where these groups are related (only most of it is made up to support the presupposition of the undemonstrated ancestor). The outside intelligent force (the designer) draws lines alleging the hows and wheres (as is represented in this one).
It differs from any of the many Evolutionary trees because each cladogram represents one branch on such man-made intelligently designed trees. It is based mainly on conjecture and the provisional interpretation of genetic data arranging such creatures as assumed to line up with halotypes, and so on, shared in common and implies these MEAN lineal relations.
In cladograms the common ancestor therefore does not have to be an individual subspecies but any changing members (plural) of an earlier population. In reverse many shapes of the many alleged Evolutionary trees can be INFERRED from a single cladogram.
As we get from Shuh, Posada, and others, the places where the imagined lines meet represent a hypothetical ancestral point (not a real one) though some atheists like to accept them as proven or established facts. Each branching in the clade assumes the lines based on inference of shared traits demonstrated in the taxa above it.
So this one is saying all of these are
probably related at these
possible places in the presupposed genetic lineage. See the next post...