Taxonomía y nomenclatura en Antropología: ¿Claridad o Caos?
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Emiliano Aguirre [1]
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[1] Real Academia de Ciencias
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- Localización: Actas XIII Congreso SEAB. Biología de Poblaciones Humanas: Diversidad, tiempo, espacio / José Enrique Egocheaga Rodríguez (ed. lit.), M. J. Sierra (comp.), 2004, ISBN 84-609-1519-0, págs. 21-41
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
Classification in Physical Anthropology is subject to the rules of Zoological Taxonomy and Nomenclature; must be grounded on shared form and function, and genome.
Anthropological Taxonomy includes classification of populations of human clade known to us as fossils. Present classification is subject to revision. In fossil groups, hibridation potential cannot be tested, only inferred; and magnitudes of morphological differences ar not sufficent criterion. When evolutionary tracks are investigated, taxonomic prejudice in distinguishing and naming "species" can induce to error and misinterpretation by circular argument.
In human clade and closer primate relatives taxonomic discrepancies are exaggerated; classification and taxonomic chaotic. Chronological distances cannot absolutely be a criterion for taxonomicc categories - species, genus, family-. Number and magnitude of genetic variations are insufficient if morphofunctional differences and adaptions are not evaluated. Comparative stuyd of geographic and time near groups of fossils, or "palaeo-demes", of presumably genetic community, is recommended as starting hypothesis to be tested, instead of gratuitous assumed "species".
