Darwin-L Message Log 1:50 (September 1993)

Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences

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<1:50>From acvascon@ibase.br  Tue Sep  7 05:28:08 1993

From: acvascon@ibase.br
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 07:28:39 BRA
To: darwin-l@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu
Subject: Pattern without Process

   Is it possible to produce a natural classification without any knowledge
about the process of evolution of a group?

   Some "noise" arises when one says that a cladogram is not a phylogenetic
tree. It is quite simple to put apart the ancestrality of a group, but doing
so we are not making our analysis to be so closed in spirit and cold???

   Can we access the pattern of evolution without the process?????

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  Alberto Correa de Vasconcellos
  R. Pereira da Silva, 140/301
  Laranjeiras   Rio de Janeiro
  22221-140  Rio de Janeiro  Brasil
  E-mail: acvascon@ax.ibase.br
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