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Help Me Learn Taxonomy?
Topic Started: Aug 29 2009, 10:30 AM (214 Views)
WallaceGrover
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Can someone point me to a good source or website link to learn taxonomy, because currently I'm struggling with it (along with my understanding of the way the microscopic world, cells, and DNA, amino acids, etc. affect evolution)?
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lamna
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Oh I remember we learnt about this in Biology at collage, but I already knew most of it.

I'm not good at explaining, but keep in mine there is no real division beyond species. Everything above that is for our own convenience.
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Cladistics are where it's at buddy ;)



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Yeah, cladistics is much better than Linnaean taxonomy, since it groups organism based on their descent rather than features.

A good place to start learning about taxonomy is Wikipedia, if you like reading about animals and other organisms, because their taxoboxes explain it all, and even have links to the groups.
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