N.Wells
Posts: 1836
Joined: Oct. 2005
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| Quote | | With bonobos and chimps being almost as genetically different from each other as they are to gorillas |
That is not true. Once again, see http://users.rcn.com/jkimbal....ids.jpg
I am using "cousins" to provide you with an understandable metaphor. Technically, Pan paniscus and Pan troglodytes are a sister group (in this case, sister species). Together, they are our sister group.
| Quote | | In this case it's what we the people want. |
That may matter politically, but it doesn't matter scientifically - that's not the way science works.
| Quote | | Your going on and on about how things are officially taxonomically classified is irrelevant to a discussion about a word that is not even used in official taxonomical classification. |
That is one of the most idiotic statements you have made on this thread, and that is quite an achievement. YOU made claims about about relatedness and classification, and YOU dragged a poorly defined word into the topic (human). YOU are the person ignoring pre-existing definitions (chimp, human), and debasing and misusing technical concepts.
Phylogeny, cladistics, systematics, and taxonomy are the branches of science concerned with relatedness and classification and their methods, so any discussion in these areas necessarily goes into those sorts of details.
All you've done here is deliver ignorant statements in blissful yet assertive ignorance.
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