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"Homo troglodytes" Genome Project, DNA 96% {us}

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09-05-2005 6:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by JustinC
09-05-2005 6:18 PM

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Isn't this argument kindof pointless since all categories above the species level are arbitary?
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And somethimes the species level, too!
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09-06-2005 1:31 PM 		Reply to: Message 25 by RAZD
09-05-2005 9:11 PM

I am (as a non-biologist) a big proponent of cladistics. However, it does seem silly to completely abandon Linnean classification altogether. Linnean classification and phylogenic classification each have their strengths, and I suspect that both are going to be used side-by-side for some time to come.
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