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RE: The iguanodont paper
--- Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
schrieb:
>
> Eike wrote:
>
> > I would go as far as to say that from the point of
> > evolutionary ecology, *most* paraphyletic groups
> are
> > interesting.
>
> Unfortunately, paraphyletic groups can also be
> highly misleading.
Exactly. Hence the desire (or need if you will) for a
distinctive orthography.
With this, it can be left to evolve - interesting
paraphyletic "taxa" may stick around but be written so
as to be conceptually recognizable as non-clades, and
uninteresting ones will die out.
Eike
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