classification

[Stephen Darbyshire]

Tim Ross wrote:

>        As I was driving home last night, I got to thinking again about the
>classification scheme that was discussed on TAXACOM a few weeks back
>relating to Animals:  those that are Useful; those are are Useless; and
>those that are Dangerous.  I don't recall who is credited with this
>classification scheme, but I believe it was some in-bred, heavily armed
>hillbilly.

The developement of this classification scheme, good-neutral-bad,
undoubtedly predates the evolution of Homo sapiens.  It is still
useful for subspecific classification of H. sapiens (as Tim
pointed out).

Stephen Darbyshire