[Taxacom] The difference

[Richard Pyle]

I agree -- and the point of my message was to emphasize my agreement (though
maybe I didn't articulate it well). And, I'm not so sure there is a large
literature concerning this issue.  

My point was (like your point), that despite the fact that it should be
"obvious", very few people seem to treat it as such -- as your post
underscored.

Aloha,
RIch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Zander [mailto:Richard.Zander at mobot.org] 
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:15 PM
> To: Richard Pyle; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: RE: [Taxacom] The difference
> 
> 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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