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Biological classifacations; help!
Topic Started: Sep 15 2010, 09:28 PM (892 Views)
Holben
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I think JohnFaa has it right. Use cladistics. :P

Pando, perhaps you are combining cladistics and Linnaean there?
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I just use modern taxonomy with a change that birds aren't a Class. That's what I use for Earth taxonomy.

I could start using the monophyly cladistics, but the paraphyly and polyphyly repels me from using it.
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True Cladistics, perhaps?
I sound kind of militant here.

Anyway, Cladistics is always free to be updated. With Linnaean, all sorts of shifts gotta happen.
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Are you plausible?

As I said, it's all a matter of preference, and if you feel one is better than the other, feel free to use it. Let's not make this some sort of divisive politicized issue...

Sorry, I've been hearing that kind of crap all around campus today... Where's that smiley that puts a gun to the head?
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Holben
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:machinegun: ?

But we need to have something to fight over.
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If you stick with Cladistics, you don't have to deal with stuff like "Kingdom" Protista.
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Are you plausible?

You don't have to do that with taxonomy either.

:;S: :machinegun:
Edited by Empyreon, Sep 17 2010, 03:55 PM.
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Holben
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Maybe if you change it.

But i need to find a taxonomy emoticon...

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I think this is the leading new taxonomy at the moment.

Domain Bacteria

Bacteria

Domain Archaea

Archaea

Domain Eukarya

Amoebozoa — most lobose amoeboids and slime moulds
Opisthokonta — animals, fungi, choanoflagellates, etc.
Rhizaria — Foraminifera, Radiolaria, and various other amoeboid protozoa
Archaeplastida (or Primoplantae) — Land plants, green algae, red algae, and glaucophytes
Chromalveolata — Stramenopiles (or Heterokonta), Haptophyta, Cryptophyta (or cryptomonads), and Alveolata
Excavata — Various flagellate protozoa
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Posted Image, dammit!
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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