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New Christidis & Boles

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Subject: New Christidis & Boles
From: "John Harris" <>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:42:46 +1100
That's a fairly large claim Andrew!!  Maybe more than birders on
B-A.......

Yours in all things "green"

Regards

John Harris
President, Victorian Association for Environmental Education (VAEE)
Environmental Education Officer
Donvale Christian College
155 Tindals Rd Donvale 3111
03 9844 2471
0409 090 955
 

>>> Andrew Taylor <> 22/01/2008 10:06 pm >>>
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:14:25PM +1100, John Leonard wrote:
> The ordering certainly isn't magical because the taxononist is
trying
> to put into a one dimensional list his/her conception of a three
> dimensional set of relationships.

To be pedantic a phylogentic tree isn't even two dimensional.
Taxonomists do have a few choices to make when converting a taxonomic
tree into a linear taxonomic order.  Given a phylogentic tree the size
of that for Australian birds, there are more possible taxonomic orders
than there are atoms in the universes.

Andrew
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