. Biochemical systematics. Biochemical variation; Botany. 8 BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS. "Lord, what a day!" Fig. 2-1. From the systematic point of view, the original caption might have read, with equal humor, "You mean they're not all dogs?" (Drawing by George Price, 1954, The New Yorker Maga- zine, Inc.) order, and division have no specific meaning to most non-biologists and frequently disputed meaning among biologists. The categories may be regarded as highly arbitrary. Any attempt by man to categorize natural variation must be arbitrary with respect to a terminological syst
. Biochemical systematics. Biochemical variation; Botany. 8 BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS. "Lord, what a day!" Fig. 2-1. From the systematic point of view, the original caption might have read, with equal humor, "You mean they're not all dogs?" (Drawing by George Price, 1954, The New Yorker Maga- zine, Inc.) order, and division have no specific meaning to most non-biologists and frequently disputed meaning among biologists. The categories may be regarded as highly arbitrary. Any attempt by man to categorize natural variation must be arbitrary with respect to a terminological system. This does not mean that the natural entities which are being classified are, in themselves, arbitrary or subjective. If Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted as the general mechanism for the origin of extant taxa, it necessarily follows that the hierarchy of formal categories erected by man do stand in certain positions relative to each other. It is often argued that the biological categories, in that they are classified by man, are completely subjective in nature. What is often overlooked here is that the subjectiveness is in applying the terminology; the objectiveness of the category under consideration, from a biological point of view, is real. If the biological entity were completely subjective, then, to use a far-fetched analogy, one might well expect the dog-catcher to bring into the pound occasionally lions, orang-outangs, pelicans, and on rare occasions, snakes (cf. Fig. 2-1).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alston, Ralph E; Turner, B. L. (Billie Lee), 1925-. Englewood Cliffs, N. J. , Prentice-Hall
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