[Taxacom] paraphylophobia again

[Stephen Thorpe]

To Curtis and Kenneth,
I was not saying that either Protista, or Reptilia, etc. were  
paraphyletic "remainders" - they are not! They might HAVE paraphyletic  
remainders once you sort out all the monophyletic subgroups of each of  
them. To retain a paraphyletic "Reptilia" has nothing to do with  
"remainders", but rather simply ignores the fact that Mammalia and  
Aves both clearly belong to monophyletic subgroups of "Reptilia".
Stephen

Quoting Curtis Clark <jcclark-lists at earthlink.net>:

> On 2009-07-19 00:58, Richard Pyle wrote:
>> Wow!  Having just read Ken's comment, and your reply, I see that the three
>> of us (at least) appear to be very harmonious in our perspective on this
>> topic. I probably should have just stayed out of the conversation....
>
> Reptilia and Protista are awfully big paraphyletic remainders.
>
> Oh, and I wish Ken would stop blaming the cladists for the three
> domains. Archaebacteria in many trees are paraphyletic.
>
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