This one’s for you, tpanther!
Ping!!!!!!!!!
The reduction of scientific debate to elbows to the head and knees to the crotch continues apace.
Thanks for the ping!
From Steve Jone's book "Darwin's Ghost," page 285: we have ...
One set of genes is found everywhere. It translates the information coded in the DNA and allows it to make proteins. The job is so essential that such structures changed little over millions of years. To put them through the cladistic machine shows how biology has failed to notice some fundamental splits among its subjects.
Nature's new pedigree has three great domains. One emcompasses organisms whose DNA is contained within a nuclear membrane, together with, a little further away, a variety of single-cell gut parasites. The bacteria and - quite new - the archaea, tiny entities once seen as a mere subdivision of bacteria but in fact distinct, are each in a class of their own. Their dominion is divided not into a mere five kingdoms, but into dozens.
Popcorn for supper tonight!
I see you've hit a nerve with this one! LOL!