RE: bats & battalions (was Benton and Kinman)

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Ken Kinman
>
>       Which brings me back to the military analogy.  If our
> government was
> organized strictly cladistically, the Air Force would still be
> one gigantic
> company (or platoon?) that was never allowed to separate from the
> Army.  So
> the cladists would have had to invent new intermediate ranks to
> divide the
> Air Force hierarchy:  gigaCorporal, magnaCorporal, superCorporal,
> Corporal,
> subCorporal, infraCorporal, subinfraCorporal, ad nauseum.

To be fair, the great proliferation of rank names were developed by
non-cladists like W.D. Matthew, Romer, and company.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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