[Taxacom] Tuataras are REAL (the relativity of reality)

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Ken Kinman wrote:

>  Such a clade seems to me to be BOTH a class AND an 
> individual.  
> Why can't it be both, rather than only one or the other?

* of course, the whole point of the "taxa as individuals" is that they 
are indeed both. Just as I'm both an individual as a person, and a class 
(or cluster) as an aggregate of cells, a monophyletic taxon is an 
historic individual made up of individual organisms.

fred.
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