>
> Taxonomy (the classification of species) is probably the best and worst
> place to look for "facts".
>

( For real scientists, nothing is really "known"; everything is provisional.
> It is as much a process of forgetting as learning. What we once thought and
> even believed, was quickly replaced with what we know now, and what we hope
> to discover soon ... )
>


Good ones, Peter.

You soon discover this when you go from undergraduate work to graduate. All
those carved in stone "facts" you learned become "not quite" or "yes,
but..".  Science is not settled.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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