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Old 04-08-2020, 08:03 AM   #4
Michael Thayne
 
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Default Re: Defining biological taxa with GURPS

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
More generally, it looks as if you're doing something more like folk taxonomy (with its classes of beasts, birds, snakes, fish, and wugs), or maybe Linnean taxonomy, than anything post-1900.
What makes you say this? I realize I've got some paraphyletic groups in my taxonomy, but insistence on phylogenic taxonomy became the norm only relatively recently, much more recently than circa 1900.
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