[Taxacom] Paraphyletic groups as natural units of biological classification

[Stephen Thorpe]

That was uncalled for! I was trying to articulate an idea. If my terminology wuz in some way inappropriate, I apologise, but it was entirely unintentional. Let me rephrase it in the form of a question: do you think it is common (or even possible) for a monophyletic group (M) to evolve quickly (within a larger monophylum), leaving only a remainder of plesiomorphic species which are very similar to each other, but very different to M?

Stephen

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On Thu, 2/10/14, Curtis Clark <lists at curtisclark.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Paraphyletic groups as natural units of biological classification
 To: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Thursday, 2 October, 2014, 6:45 PM
 
 On 2014-09-30 5:14 PM,
 Stephen Thorpe wrote:
 > I suspect that
 evolution is intrinsically paraphyletic,
 [...]
 > ... just a bunch of
 plesiomorphic species,
 When you use words
 however you like, no one can effectively challenge 
 your views, because you are no longer
 communicating science.
 
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