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geoffrey

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on: Jul 14, 2013
Linnaeus was a "fixist" who believed that species remained fixed in the form in which they had been created. Linnaeus would have been uncomfortable with
A) classifying organisms using the morphospecies concept.
B) the scientific discipline known as taxonomy.
C) phylogenies.
D) nested, ever-more inclusive categories of organisms.
E) a hierarchical classification scheme.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2013
Easy! It's C. Bye for now :D


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Reply #2 on: Jul 15, 2013
Thanks so much, the answer you provide was right on!


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