Re: a universal Reptilia (ending the cladisto-eclectic war)

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

    Cranky aroma?  You really know how to to endear yourself to people!!??
    Actually I have been using the Kinman System since 1979.  I found it so 
useful, that I decided to share it and publish a book about it (at my OWN 
expense) in 1994.  If I was just looking to make money, I certainly wouldn't 
have chosen this kind of book.  And classifying all of life as one really 
huge example (so various disciplines could relate to it) was no easy task.
     Not only has it been a financial drain and very time consuming, but I 
get criticism from both sides.  Eclecticists think I'm a cladist, and 
cladists think I'm an eclecticist.  And most of them haven't even looked at 
the book.  Enough university libraries in the U.S. have it that it shouldn't 
be too hard to find or borrow on Interlibrary Loan.
    I wasn't feeling very cranky earlier, but feeling a bit cranky after 
that "aroma" comment.
                       Gee whiz, Ken
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> From: Dinogeorge@aol.com
> Reply-To: Dinogeorge@aol.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: a universal Reptilia (ending the cladisto-eclectic war)
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:38:04 EDT
>
> In a message dated 6/20/00 1:46:54 PM EST, stonebugdotnet@yahoo.com writes:
>
> << What is it that's not neutral about "Kinman system," anyway? >>
>
> Well, suppose I called BCF "Dinogeorge's Theory of Dinosaur-Bird
> Relationships"? Or GOODD theory: George Olshevsky On Dinosaur Descent: as
> opposed to BADD theory (Birds Are Dinosaur Descendants)? Not exactly 
> neutral
> names, are they? Having Kinman push the Kinman system of classification
> carries a cranky aroma with it. Charles Darwin didn't call his own theory
> Darwinian Evolution; other people did, later.

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