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If it is a vicious circle, both evolutionist and pheneticist would be trapped, but the circle is benign.

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The pheneticist must admit that his oper - ational homology is neither theory-free nor unbiased with regard to phylogenetic hypotheses, and that the evolutionary taxonomist is not necessarily unscientific for his lack of simple measuring operations.

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Finally, the pheneticist is wrong in asserting that

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Suppose the pheneticist deduced from his clusters a presumptive phylogenetic sequence which happened to be incon - sistent with the temporal relations in the fossil record.

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Both propositions appear to be incongruent with standard theoretical perspectives on species themselves, since these perspectives are (a) non-pheneticist, and (b) tend to disregard intermediate cases.

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In place of these putatively objectionable practices, the pheneticist, and in particular, the numerical tax - onomist, wishes to substitute less biased, more reliable methods (Sokal and Sneath, 1963); therefore, they have introduced “operational homology” (Sokal and Camin,

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