"uncompromising, single-minded"

[Curtis Clark]

At 07:51 AM 11/18/2002, Thomas Lammers wrote:
>>Who is being uncompromising here?
>
>Well, I don't think Ken is, really.  His system is by its very nature, if
>I understand it correctly, an attempt to *compromise* between the
>cladistic approach and the traditional phyletic approach.

A compromise that discourages "strict cladists" from naming only clades in
the traditional systems at the same time that it discourages them from
forming their own system isn't much of a compromise, IMO.


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