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A taxonomist who adheres to the classification of organisms based on measurable similarities and differences rather than genetic makeup and evolutionary descent.

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  • Finally, the pheneticist is wrong in asserting that
  • If it is a vicious circle, both evolutionist and pheneticist would be trapped, but the circle is benign.
  • Suppose the pheneticist deduced from his clusters a presumptive phylogenetic sequence which happened to be incon - sistent with the temporal relations in the fossil record.
  • The pheneticist must admit that his oper - ational homology is neither theory-free nor unbiased with regard to phylogenetic hypotheses, and that the evolutionary...
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