Farewell to species (but not yet!)

[Curtis Clark]

At 12:43 PM 00.02.06 -0600, Thomas Lammers wrote:
>At 07:53 PM 2/4/00 -0800, Curtis Clark wrote:
>
>>Paraphyletic groups are fine, until someone assume they provide
>>information about kinship.
>
>They do.  All their members are descended from a common ancestor.   That's
>kinship.

No two members are necessarily closer kin than either is to a nonmember of
the group. I should have said "information about kinship of any given
member".

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