tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697616560977719586.post4372352929791120764..comments2023-10-28T01:53:23.721-07:00Comments on Systematics and Biogeography: Hidden Agendas: The Media & ScienceMalte C. Ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11901602320985626811noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697616560977719586.post-61096864474291985712009-07-14T20:43:01.054-07:002009-07-14T20:43:01.054-07:00Here is why genetic engineers got the funding and ...Here is why genetic engineers got the funding and the paleontologists got zit.<br /><br />http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/090528/jablonski.shtml<br /><br />As I said, this is not a struggle between Media & Science.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697616560977719586.post-74338307466720997942009-07-14T20:27:57.779-07:002009-07-14T20:27:57.779-07:00Your view of taxonomy that systematics in a sense ...Your view of taxonomy that systematics in a sense precedes evolutionary biological theory is at odds with the modern practice of Hennigian taxonomy. The very term "shared derived characters" requires an evolutionary scenario.<br /><br />Regarding paleontological scholarship, a prominent geneticist at the University of Chicago during the mid 1960's said that, "Paleontologist are the custodians of a dead science." In the late 1970's, a now eminent archosaur paleontologist at the University of California at Berkeley said that "The evolutionary theoretician is the true scholar and taxonomists are dullards incapable of advanced thinking."<br /><br />I don't believe that the news media are the primary cause but merely a strong reenforcer of the prevalent scientific regard of paleontological scholarship.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697616560977719586.post-10404679180775017422009-06-20T03:12:11.729-07:002009-06-20T03:12:11.729-07:00Hi,
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