rankless nomenclature

[Curtis Clark]

At 12:18 PM 10/16/00, Ken Kinman wrote:
>I do agree with Zdenek's last statement below, that to promote
>stability, we should *decouple* classification and nomenclature from any one
>ideology as much as possible, thus making it "compatible with different
>taxonomic practices."

I wonder what would have happened if the chemists had rejected Mendeleev's
periodic table, because it was too wedded to a specific "ideology"?



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