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MadPanda, FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 25 2011,10:23   

From a layman's perspective, I would guess that it's both, in that the process and the results cannot be easily separated into discrete boxes.  (This may also be part of the reason why there are so many working definitions of 'species' out there.  :)  )

I would start muttering a bit about Hegel's Dialectic* here for a few minutes, as I am prone to doing, but someone might think I actually know what I'm talking about and take me for an authority.


The MadPanda, FCD


* Yes, I know, but it's still an interesting model if you can get around the original author's fundamental error in assuming a final perfect form.

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