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improve bind.tree doc #61

Closed josephwb closed 4 years ago

josephwb commented 4 years ago

A student and i struggled quite a bit over the this function yesterday, in part because of the wording, and in part because no example was given. This PR addresses both.

  1. 'below a node' is ambiguous. is the root assumed to be at the top of the tree or the bottom? here, 'below' is replaced by 'rootward' to be unambiguous.
  2. an example is given for attaching both an extant and an extinct tip to a tree.

HTH.