From phma@oltronics.net Mon Jul 16 17:59:54 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 17 Jul 2001 00:59:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 56430 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 00:59:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Jul 2001 00:59:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.106) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 00:59:45 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4B67F3C564; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:59:37 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Taxonomy Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:51:17 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010714112345.05411f00@127.0.0.1> <01071620280503.02684@neofelis> <20010716174037.P27920@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20010716174037.P27920@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071620593706.02684@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >Pardon my ignorance, but what's a cladist? A cladist is someone who believes that all living organisms are descended from an original organism and that species split into more species, and classifies organisms accordingly. Cladists do not use the taxa genus, family, ..., kingdom; instead they use clades, which can contain subclades. To me, birds constitute one class, mammals another, and reptiles another; to a cladist, birds are a subclade of reptiles, and the sister clade of the birds is the crocodilians. The word "clade" is from the Greek word for branch. phma