Message 2006-01-0007: Re: PhyloCode: The origin of life perhaps a few times over

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:28:08 +0100 (MET)

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:28:08 +0100 (MET)
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: PhyloCode: The origin of life perhaps a few times over

> PhyloCode may have to keep its eyes open to developments
> in geology and astronomy for its code.

Why? The PhyloCode can already deal with everything that evolves and=
=20
branches* -- it could even be used for languages. How many origins of=
 life=20
there were doesn't matter for it.

* Contrary to an earlier post of mine, Lamarck doesn't seem to have=
=20
believed in cladogenesis... he believed that life is constantly arisi=
ng=20
anew and passing through a lot of stages which make up the diversity =
we=20
see around us, so the human lineage is the oldest, the chimpanzee lin=
eage=20
is a little younger, and so on...

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