[Taxacom] Invisible evolution

[Curtis Clark]

On 2007-06-08 14:20, Thomas Lammers wrote:
> This problem is a reflection of the key fatal flaw with cladistics:

The fatal flaw in opponents to cladistics is that they assume cladistics 
is a monolith and that its practitioners are interchangeable 
stereotypes. :-)

> The ancestral species MUST go extinct
> lest our a priori decision that paraphyly is unacceptable be
> compromised.

Anyone who can't or won't distinguish paraphyletic species from 
paraphyletic higher taxa isn't interested in what *really* happened.

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