Gaps and Prediction in Classification

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Abstract
Michener recently indicated that one of the purposes of classification, is to serve as a basis for predicting a maximum number of unknown characters. This may actually be the most important function of classifications. Michener also contends that classifications which adopt paraphyletic groups (when they are separated from other taxa by what a taxonomist might view as significant phenetic gaps) are more effective in predicting unknown characters than are classifications which adopt only monophyletic groups. This theory is investigated.

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