[Taxacom] Clade age

[John Grehan]

This all helps makes the case that definitions really don't matter.

John Grehan

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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Curtis Clark

This is the confusion I wrote about. Human constructs are subject to 
definition, and, Humpty-Dumpty notwithstanding, shared definition 
facilitates communication (good). Definition of natural entities or 
processes freezes their understanding at a point in time (bad).

-- 
Curtis Clark                  http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/
Professor, Biological Sciences                   +1 909 979 6371


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