[Taxacom] could the orangutan be our closest relative?

[John Grehan]

Is it no wonder that taxonomy - at least morphological taxonomy - is in
decline when molecular theorists and even morphologists can get away
with dismissing a contradictory morphologically based theory of
relationship as "preposterous nonsense" and "loopy" because it does not
agree with molecular similarity. See:

 

Could the orang-utan be our closest relative? 
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227133.800-could-the-orangutan-b
e-our-closest-relative.html?full=true

 

John Grehan

 

Dr. John R. Grehan

Director of Science

Buffalo Museum of Science1020 Humboldt Parkway

Buffalo, NY 14211-1193

email: jgrehan at sciencebuff.org

Phone: (716) 896-5200 ext 372

 

Panbiogeography

http://www.sciencebuff.org/research/current-research-activities/john-gre
han/evolutionary-biography
<http://www.sciencebuff.org/biogeography_and_evolutionary_biology.php> 

Ghost moth research

http://www.sciencebuff.org/research/current-research-activities/john-gre
han/ghost-moths
<http://www.sciencebuff.org/systematics_and_evolution_of_hepialdiae.php>


Human evolution and the great apes

http://www.sciencebuff.org/research/current-research-activities/john-gre
han/human-origins