[Taxacom] serious questions about taxonomy and ontogeny

[Richard Zander]

Well, maybe so. We know pattern recognition works and is somewhat replicable, so it is not the same as Divine Revelation. But is it scientific? Is it testable? Is replication the same as testing pattern recognition? Is there a separate test, maybe molecular systematics?

 
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Richard H. Zander 
Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA 
Web sites: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/ and http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/bfnamenu.htm
Modern Evolutionary Systematics Web site: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/21EvSy.htm


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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Thorpe
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:20 PM
To: Monique Reed; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] serious questions about taxonomy and ontogeny

perhaps the answer to the problem is for universities to have Taxonomy 
Departments in their Arts Faculties! :)