Real taxa => Ranking

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In a message dated 9/30/2004 2:02:49 AM Pacific Standard Time,
dipteryx at FREELER.NL writes:

> From: Richard Pyle <deepreef at BISHOPMUSEUM.ORG>
> >The Linnaean nomenclature system has a
> >very successful, two-and-a-half-century legacy as a language for
> >communication about fundamental aspects of biodiversity among biologists.
> I see no reason why that legacy cannot continue decades/centuries into the
> >future.
> ...
> >What was needed (and
> >what I STILL feel is needed -- whether it is the Phylocode or some other
> >nomenclatural scheme) was a language that is optimized to communicate
> ideas about phylogenies.
>
> * * *
> A sentiment that is worth echoing!
> PvR
>

For what it is worth, I should also echo those sentiments.
Herb