...and is not circular. It makes trees and checks how well they fit the weights they themselves imply. All other comments stand.

Reweighting = iterative/successive/a-posteriori weighting does work as described here, and is indeed circular.

Goloboff PA. 1997. Self-weighted optimization: tree searches and character state reconstructions under implied transformation costs. Cladistics 13(3): 225...

Andreas Johansson kindly informs me that rad also means "row" in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.

Brachystelechidae should be neither in italics nor in boldface.

PeerJ has a lot of secret house style that is neither negotiable nor mentioned anywhere in the author guidelines. This fact requires a number of comments.

First of all, our ORCIDs are: D. M.: 0000-0001-9720-7726 M. L.: 0000-0003-2974-9835

PeerJ does not publish ORCIDs anywhere. I have no clue why. Repeated pleas to let us publish with our scientist numbers have only generated resta...