[Taxacom] Robust argument - clarification
Richard Pyle
deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Sun Jun 28 04:29:02 CDT 2009
2009
I said:
> Fossils may reveal a lot of information that extant
> genomes no longer carry (although....ultimately the
> informatic value of the fossils is morphology, which for the
> most part *was* embedded in the dead oragnism's genome, even
> if that information has long been lost to time).
I wouldn't want to be misinterpreted (again), so I should correct the above
parenthetical statement to say that the informatic value of fossils *also*
includes geopgraphy as well as time; not just morphology.
Aloha,
Rich
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