Taxonomic boundary paradox
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taxonomic-boundary-paradox-303-6818621
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Taxonomic boundary paradox
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The term boundary paradox refers to the conflict between traditional, rank-based classification of life and evolutionary thinking. In the hierarchy of ranked categories it is implicitly assumed that the morphological gap is growing along with increasing ranks: two species from the same genus are more similar than other two species from different genera in the same family, these latter two species are more similar than any two species from different families of the same order, and so on. However,
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Conflict between traditional, rank-based classification of life and evolutionary thinking
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_boundary_paradox
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2022-10-15T19:03:57Z
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