[Taxacom] Protist systematics

[Fred Schueler]

Quoting Ken Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com>:

> > Too bad limited paraphyly is still seen as a bad thing, and those  
> who bash paraphyly can still get rewarded for doing so.

* or, we might say, "too bad categories are still seen as a good  
thing." Surely we're at the state now where we can characterize at  
least these higher taxa by their estimated age of divergence, and the  
genomic difference between their surviving descendents.

fred.
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