[Taxacom] The difference

[Richard Zander]

Well, sure, Rich, I appreciate that I did not include an acknowledgement
that there is doubtless a large literature glancing off this obvious
fact. There is, however, no action. If morphological traits are
surrogates for more than one molecular trait, there is certainly no
mention, hint, or quibble about this in actual phylogenetic analyses of
combined data.

R.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-
> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Pyle
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 4:31 PM
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] The difference
> place
> to use the word "epiphany" for something so obvious that any
high-school
> student with a grade of "C" or better in introductory biology should
know,
> but I think it representes a fundamental cognition of something we all
> know
> to be factually true, but haven't quite itegrated it into our mental
> abstraction of biodiversity to the point where it shapes our
perspective
> of
> the world around us. I know that sounds largely like gobble-dee-gook,
but
> there is something real in there about interpreting the world in a new
way
> after putting an otherwise obvious fact into proper context (I had a
> similar
> experience late one night the first time I saw the moon as a
3-dimentional
> object floating in space, rather than a big disk).
> 
> Aloha,
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
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