Bats in the Battalion, Marching to War

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

  In the last 24 hours, I've read now three different posts from three 
different people referring
to the conflict between Linnaean taxonomy and cladistics. Why? Cladistics has 
nothing to do with
taxonomy, it's a compuer algorhithm used to find best-fit matches among input 
data in a field.
Geneticists use it, etc. There is confusion here, in spite of how many times it 
is pointed out,
and it continues to persist, so I guess it should be re-stated:

  Cladistics is as above, a computer algorhithm, based on input.

  Phylogenetic taxonomy (PT for short) is a system by which groups are ordered 
by relationships
and these are phrased by statements to which only an ancestor--descendant 
relationship is assumed.

  As discussed before, Linnaeam systematics is much more different in practice 
and format, as well
as the inclusion of nodes. Cladistics is a practice, and a function only, and 
has nothing to do
with the philosophies of practical science. The argument of ranks is between PT 
and Linnaean
systematics.


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Jaime A. Headden

  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhr-gen-ti-na
  Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Pampas!!!!

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