[Taxacom] Insects are crustacean descendants vs. "insects ARE crustaceans"

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 2/9/2018 11:53 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:

> I think the cladist mind thinks that a taxon includes all its decendants, so whatever name applies to the taxon also applies to all its decendants. So, tetrapods are Sarcopterygia/sarcopterygians. Sort of makes sense. Tetrapods are also animals, eukaryotes, etc.

* it's not necessarily the "cladist mind" thinks that a taxon includes 
all its descendants, but the mind which recognizes monophyletic taxa as 
individuals rather than classes, a la Ghiselin. Perhaps the 
philosophical objection to paraphyletic taxa is that they are classes 
rather than individuals?

fred.
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p.s. and the subtheme that the English names of all monophyletic taxa 
are proper nouns and are to be capitalized - http://pinicola.ca/m1999b.htm


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> On Sat, 10/2/18, Kenneth Kinman<kinman at hotmail.com>  wrote:

>   The present discussion about paraphyly reminds me of strict
>   cladists insisting that "birds ARE dinosaurs",
>   rather than "birds are dinosaur descendants".

fred.
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