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Multicellular Animals, Volume III: Order in Nature - System Made by Man (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003)
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Multicellular Animals, Volume III: Order in Nature - System Made by Man (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003)
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The turtle, toothless, soft bodied, enclosed in boney, shell, is
primordial and invincible, slow and changeless. Locked into turtles
of time and tradition, inertia and ignorance, darkness and fear, we
cajole and pull, struggle and push until we learn that ideas set us
free. Fairbanks, Alaska University Campus Sculpture LIz BIESOT 1985
The evolutionary order of organisms as a product of Nature and its
repre- sentation in a phylogenetic system as a construct of Man are
two different things. The order in Nature consists of relationships
between organisms. It is the result of an historic process that we
call phylogenesis. When working with this order we must clearly
differentiate between its identification and the subsequent
description of what has been identified. When identifying the order
we are placing ourselves in the framework of "hypothetical realism"
(Vol. 1, p. 11); it is principally impossible to de- termine how
well or how poorly the real world and our cognitive appara- tus
match. For phylogenetics as an historicaUy directed discipline,
how- ever, the following limitation is more relevant. We cannot
demonstrate ex- perimentally wh ether or not that which we have
interpreted from the prod- ucts of phylogenesis corresponds to
facts of (hypothetical) reality.
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