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Grokker
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Word of the Day for Thursday February 28, 2002:
ineluctable in-ih-LUCK-tuh-buhl, adjective: Impossible to avoid or evade; inevitable.
Linnaeus' classification scheme became popular not because it captured some ineluctable truth about nature. Rather, by the botanist's own admission, the system divided species based more on intuition than science, much as an art historian might group paintings into schools.
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gsbisht1
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What a bunch of cladistic propogranda. In reality, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY and comparative genomics are the reasons we continue to make progress in evolutionary studies (including the dinosaurian origins of birds). Cladistic analysis has certainly helped when done well, but hindered it when it done poorly (which happens quite often). Purely cladistic classifications, and the legalistic monstrosity (PhyloCode) proposed to shove them down everyone's throats, threaten stability of classifications and our future ability to communicate scientific ideas in an effective manner. If biologists learned to do cladistic analysis correctly, instead of wasting time building Phylocode Castles in the Sky, we would all be better off.
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