[Taxacom] Dark taxa: GenBank in a post-taxonomic world

[Curtis Clark]

> Gould discusses a point others have made here that Dollo's Law originally claimed that complex structures could not be re-evolved, which Gould says, and I agree, is a valid statement. Short of the idea that in an infinite universe or multiverse all things must re-occur exactly (a hellish idea), then one cannot use infinite sequence data to study evolution. (Is this metaphysics?)
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One can use anything to study evolution; surely you know that. What weight to give it is another issue.

On a lighter note, does bringing up the same arguments repeatedly violate Dollo's Law? :-)

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Curtis Clark
Cal Poly Pomona