Numerical Taxonomy: Its Value to Mosquito Systematics
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Nielsen's (1969) article in the last issue of this Newsletter motivated me to write the following comments. It was not because he criticized numerical taxonomy (NT), but rather, in my opinion, he criticized aspects of NT that either a) no longer need to be criticized, or b) are not the fault of the methods of numerical taxonomy but of the people who use them, in this case, Steward (1968). Like Nielsen, I was not impressed with Steward's article when I first read it. But some of our reasons are not the same.
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