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Re: The iguanodont paper
T. Michael Keesey writes:
> I guarantee that for every interesting paraphyletic group you can
> think of, I can name a dozen uninteresting ones. Here's five for
> starters:
> - non-zorapteran bilaterians
> - non-zorapteran, non-canine opisthokonts
> - non-zorapteran, non-canine, non-testudine eumetazoans
> - non-dinosaurian eukaryotes
> - all eutherians except for Marilyn Monroe
... and her descendants.
(OK, I know she didn't have any, but it's the princple that counts
... otherwise your group could be polyphyletic :-)
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