Encroachment and Prohibition (Science and Evolution)

[Thomas Lammers]

At 04:19 PM 11/18/02 -0500, Richard Jensen wrote:
>I think this is a far too harsh statement.

I'll rephrase.  I realize some phylogenetic methods are essentially
phenetic in their calculations.  What I mean is that any method that is
predicated on overall resemblence in all possible characters rather than
synapomorphies is inappropriate to use to reconstruct phylogeny.
Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
phone:      920-424-1002
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and biogeography
of the Campanulaceae s. lat.

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