[Taxacom] burn out (was: classification of Class Rosopsida)

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 04:02 AM 4/22/2009, Alexander.Schmidt-Lebuhn at biologie.uni-goettingen.de 
wrote:
>The ancestors as individuals are dead anyway. ... Seen this way, monophyly 
>describes best what happened in the
>course of evolution.

Except that it seems to embrace the idea that individuals evolve rather 
than populations.


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