The Anomalies of the Pentatucal System

Houston: No matter what your classification scheme is, there's going to be some outlier somewhere in Douglas's earlier thought. He says animals that fail to conform to the model are rejected and the most emphatic rejection applies to species that threaten the classification system by overlapping its boundaries. Houston continues; "There is nothing to indicate any special degree of abhorrence for the group she had singled out as anomalous"