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Re: Apomorphy-based definitions
In a message dated 1/27/02 4:35:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Dinogeorge@aol.com writes:
> And if a species can belong to two different clades across a clade
boundary,
> naming clades is pointless.
...or maybe naming species is pointless, if our ultimate goal is
reconstructing the evolutionary history of individuals (the only truly
non-arbitrary units in evolutionary biology--and that only in organisms
incapable of asexual reproduction!)
--Nick P.