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Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:45:24 +0100 (MET)
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: PhyloCode: The definition of evolution
> What is the definition of evolution by evolutionary biologists? I think "descent with modification by mutation and selection (and dri= ft)"=20 sums it up nicely. But note that this doesn't matter for phylogenetic nomenclature. It w= ould=20 work just as fine if Lamarck had been right, for example. --=20 Telefonieren Sie schon oder sparen Sie noch? NEU: GMX Phone_Flat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/telefonie