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On Malte Ebach's post: Paraphyly Watch 2009: Pewter Leprechaun Awards Ceremony

menvall wrote 1 day ago: In this post Malte has turned the pricing of his idiots into humor, which appears to be correct. I h … more →

The troubled defense of objectivity (i.e., empirical science) in biological systematics

menvall wrote 1 day ago: Joseph Felsenstein comprehended the battle between cladists and non-cladists as a war between parsim … more →

Tags: Biological systematics (generic), Evolutionary taxonomy

Mikael Härlin och hans "historiska" enheter

menvall wrote 1 day ago: På sin hemsida för sitt forskningsprojekt “Systematik och historiseringen av biologin ( System … more →

On Malte Ebach's blog post: The Aquatic Ape

menvall wrote 2 days ago: On this post, Malte bites himself in the tail by suggesting that evolutionary science is stupid. One … more →

If....

menvall wrote 2 days ago: If a phylogeny has a beginning and an end, then it must also, as Hennig rightfully concluded, has a … more →

Malte Ebach's driving force for his paraphyly watch - his fright

menvall wrote 3 days ago: Malte Ebach’s “paraphyly watch” is actually a symptom of a fright for a mental bla … more →

On Malte Ebach's mistake

menvall wrote 4 days ago: Malte Ebach is actually saying two things at different conceptual levels at the same time. Generical … more →

On Malte Ebach's post "Paraphyly Watch 4: Monoclady and Paraclady"

menvall wrote 4 days ago: Malte’s post “Paraphyly watch 4: Monoclady and Paraclady” is a good description of … more →

Definitions of phylogenetic concepts

menvall wrote 6 days ago: Monophyletic group: “an ancestor and its descendants”. Holophyletic group: “an ancestor and all its … more →

Tags: Biological systematics (generic), Evolutionary taxonomy

Cladism - about making the two sides of coin into one

menvall wrote 6 days ago: Cladism (i.e, Hennig) first distinguishes front sides from back sides of coins, whereof it (i.e., he … more →

Correct definitions of phylogenetic concepts and the battle about the definitions of them

venvall wrote 1 week ago: Monophyletic group: “an ancestor and its descendants”. Holophyletic group: “an anc … more →

Tags: Biological systematics, Linnean classification

Clarification of Wikipedia's confused definitions of phylogenetic concepts

menvall wrote 1 week ago: Monophyletic group: “an ancestor and its descendants”. Holophyletic group: “an anc … more →

Tags: Biological systematics (generic)

Why do all mass psychoses (like nazism, communism and cladism) originate in Germany?

menvall wrote 1 week ago: Why do all mass psychoses (like nazism, communism and cladism) originate in Germany, at the same tim … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Cladism drags us down into the swamp that preceded Aristotle

menvall wrote 1 week ago: Phylogenies (i.e., dichotomously branching processes) can be consistently classified in two ways: (1 … more →

Tags: Biological systematics (generic)

Cladism only acknowledges inconsistency

menvall wrote 1 week ago: The fact that cladism’s definition of single objects as ’at least two consecutive object … more →

Tags: Biological systematics (generic)

Cladism was both discarded and falsified before it was born

menvall wrote 1 week ago: Cladism is classification over time, distinguishing different kinds of groups consisting of ancestor … more →

The Willi Hennig Society and its confused aim

menvall wrote 1 week ago: At its interernet site, the Willi Hennig Society (strangely enough located in the domain www.cladist … more →

Tags: Biological systematics (generic)

Truth relative to reality and abstraction, (and cladism)

menvall wrote 1 week ago: The problem with the concept truth is that it refers to both reality and abstraction; the problem be … more →

Tags: Biological systematics (generic)

The ideal solution of the battle between evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics

menvall wrote 1 week ago: The ideal solution of the battle between the so-called evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics is to ac … more →

Tags: Biological systematics (generic)


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