Re: Progress schmogress (was Re: competition)

["Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer11@msn.com>]

Eric Lurio wrote-

> There are twenty thousand teleosts and two celocanths, which group is
better
> at being fish?

Neither of these groups are ancestral to the other, so the statement isn't
applicable.  If we use the old "closer to humans = more derived" standard,
coelocanths would actually be more derived, yet far less abundant or varied.
This is actually a counterexample to the commonly held belief that
"progressive" forms are more successful.

Mickey Mortimer