[Taxacom] Usefulness vs. convenience (Protista)

[Sergio Vargas]

Hi,

>1. Why/how/for what?is Protista more useful or convenient?

I would add for convenient who? for many researchers, not necessarily
cladists, having paraphyletic may be rather inconvenient. I've now
hear to many times that the classification of this or that group is
useful/convenient because it makes (morphological) identification
easier. The same classification is useless/inconvenient for many other
purposes requiring groups to reflect evolutionary history.

sergio

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