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

To: Dinogeorge@aol.com
Subject: Re: Dino Birds (was Re: Dinosaur = extinct animal)
From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:51:00 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: sarima@ix.netcom.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
In-reply-to: <722f0484.24c4c757@aol.com>
Reply-to: "T. Mike Keesey" <tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu>
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/19/99 11:10:34 AM EST, tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu writes:
> 
> << No constant, arbitrary revisions necessary. >>
> 
> Constant revisions are already a fact of life in strictly cladistic 
> taxonomies!

Revisions of diagnosis and membership, not (except rarely) of definition.

--T. Michael Keesey
tkeese1@gl.umbc.edu | THE DINOSAURICON: http://dinosaur.umbc.edu/
AOL IM:   RicBlayze | WORLDS:    http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~tkeese1/

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