Re: Dino Birds (was Re: Dinosaur = extinct animal)

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/12/99 10:50:51 AM EST, cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org writes:

<< I discussed my reservations about "genera" being taxa in a post not long
 ago. >>

Yes, well, if you allow paraphyletic species, and paraphyletic genera, why 
not paraphyletic families, orders, classes, and phyla? Shucks, kingdoms are 
paraphyletic these days (since eukaryotes are "merely" symbiotic 
prokaryotes). Why draw a line between genera and families? Simply because of 
a slight change in nomenclatural philosophy there?