what birds and people share

[Curtis Clark]

At 02:42 PM 11/13/99 -0500, John Grehan wrote:
>I accept that others will object to the connection between conservation
>philosophy and Nazism.

As a cladist, I have to say that the difference between:

1.    Nazi--------->conservationist

and

2.           +--------------Nazi
      MRCA---+
             +--------------conservationist

is clear to me.

I'd like to think that the Nazis had some diagnostic synapomorphies.

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