[Taxacom] serious questions about taxonomy and ontogeny

[Curtis Clark]

  On 9/14/2010 8:14 PM, Kenneth Kinman wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>          The ultimate question of our time is still what are the best
> "ways of cutting up the cake" that we call the Tree of Life.
That is an *extremely* limited and limiting view. Arguments about 
paraphyly prevent no oil spills, save no whooping cranes, and arguably 
get us no closer to characterizing the remainder of unknown extant 
species. Although this seems to be your primary raison d'être for the 
time that I've e-known you, there's more to life, more to science, and 
even more to systematics than this one issue.

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