On 27/06/15 22:33, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
To me this is problematic in two ways:
1. It works on more than just genomes
2. There is some contention in the field about the use of
"prokaryote", since this refers to a paraphyletic group - us humans
are more closely related to Archaea than Bacteria.
http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-642-30194-0_114
I figure it was just easier to sidestep the issue and put Archaea and
Bacteria.
Perhaps I bored everyone, but is the patch a-ok now?
ta
