Re: Dumbing things down

["Steve Salisbury" <steve_salisbury@bigpond.com>]

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>From: chris brochu <cbrochu@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
>To: dinosaur@usc.edu
>Subject: Re: Croc classification (was Re: Sarcosuchus and Dumbing things down)
>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 2:53 PM

>>>  I don't recall cladists (including myself) referring to Owen for taxonomic
>>>  principles;
>>
>>Well maybe you should.
>
> Why?  We're working in an evolutionary framework, Owen worked on a
> typlogical  framework.  Different frameworks.

Ah.  A penny has dropped!  Why should you assume that everyone is working in
your evolutionary framework?

[snip]

> If the Linnean system were so great, why are we eliminating it?  Just
> to be a bunch of annoying persons?

There you go with the 'we' again.  Maybe you should think twice about the
last sentence ;o)

Cheers,

Steve


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Steve Salisbury

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