By that definition I would be the same individual as my Mom, since otherwise my Mom would be a Paraphlytic group!
Doesn't the Big Media Scientist Club realize this?
Am I really the same person as my Mom?
What about my dad?
And what about a SPECIES I'm descended from?* Are they either Homo Sapiens or not a real Species? Cause I'm descended from something like Dimetrodon if you go back far enough.
*(Cause God's way of creating species is Evolution)
If you don't understand any of this, thank your lucky stars. It's just false science based on a massive misinterpretation of the Theory of Evolution being forced on real scientists by the Big Media Scientist Club.
+Since one website I found gives a different answer, here is the generally accepted definition of
'paraphlytic': descended from a common ancestor, but not including ALL descendents of
the group. Really, though, if you didn't know that, don't worry- this message is not for
you. You don't need a fancy scientific name to use common sense.
And now I will tell you why we need Paraphlytic groups.
Because classification systems with Paraphlytic groups are great teaching tools.
When I was a kid, I remember looking in my biology group at the classification of various animals, and seeing all these fascinating animals.
Now, in the age of radical cladistics and monophlytic-only groupings, instead of seeing descriptions of fascinating animals, I will see something like this:
'Archosaruia is defined as the last common ancestor of Gavialis gangeticus and Scopus umbretta and all its descendents.
If this makes your eyes glaze over and roll and your mind go numb, you are not alone.
For with this we have learned absolutely nothing about what an Archosaur is.
As far as we know, an Archosaur could be a kind of worm or a tree.
We would have no idea that this is the mighty group that includes the dinosaurs and such amazing beasts as Desmatisuchus.
This is why we need Paraphlytic groups!
Because without Paraphlytic groups, we can't teach anything about animals except their relationships!
We can't teach if they have wings or if they have teeth, if they are plants or if they are worms or if they are fish
We cannot even teach that a fish is a creature that swims in the water!
We used to have all these fascinating creatures!
And now we don't!
Because they won't teach us of them anymore!
They won't even TEACH us about creatures if they're only members of paraphlytic groups!
They're withholding information from us!!!!!
Does this make you mad? Because it makes me mad!
We have a right to know!!!!! WE HAVE A RIGHT TO LEARN SCIENCE!!!!!!!!
YOU HEAR THAT, BIG MEDIA SCIENTIST CLUB? WE HAVE A RIGHT TO LEARN SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!
But we can't. Not anymore. Fuck.
But I will teach you.
I will teach you what an Archosaur is.
Just give me time to finish that book.
Sorry for the rant.
God loves you! Be kind! Stop withholding information!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson