Taxacom: strict cladists war against paraphyletic taxa

[Richard Zander]

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From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu> on behalf of Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2025 2:03 PM
To: taxacom at lists.ku.edu <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
Subject: Re: Taxacom: strict cladists war against paraphyletic taxa

On 12/12/2025 1:32 PM, Richard Zander via Taxacom wrote:

> I am bemused that this topic, so much debated on Taxacom, be resurrected pretty near at the final gasp of this listserver.

* is anything being done to move TAXACOM to a new platform?

fred.
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