Taxonomies, this and that

[Thomas Lammers]

>At 10:39 AM 2/2/01 -0600, Ken Kinman wrote:
>
>>     If you are asking about the classification of extraterrestrial life
>>itself, this is how I approach it.  Unless there is evidence of transfer of
>>life from one planet to another, I believe the probabilities are that life
>>evolved independently on different planets.  If we find life on Mars (living
>>or fossil), it almost certainly evolved there (in situ) separately from
>>Earth life.
>
>I seem to recall a couple serious papers from the early 1960s on just this
>question, but cannot dig up the references just now.  Perhaps someone else
>remembers???

Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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