Re: Feduccia's delusion

["Demetrios M Vital" <vita0015@umn.edu>]

> <Why all that emphasis on the living? Why should we let today's
impoverished
> fauna, where there's nothing left between very distant groups, e. g.
> Crocodylia and Neornithes, limit taxonomy?>
>
> Why all the emphasis on the impoverished record of long-extinct animals?
> Why make paramount a few small, arguable distinctions when obvious
> differences are in front of you every day?


Why not treat both living and extinct animals the same?  Why differentiate
at all?

-Demetrios Vital