[Taxacom] [iczn-list] ICZN position on Darwinius

[Jim Croft]

>  In other words, if a publication exists only in non-durable form,
> or only as a single copy on durable media (although, to be literal about it,
> even a single electronic copy exists on durable media -- they don't call it
> a "Hard" drive for nothing...so I can't even imagine any document that
> doesn't exist as at least one copy on "durable" media -- except, perhaps,
> for the spoken voice -- which isn't really a document.....but I digress).

Ha!  When it comes to durability we are not even in the race!
250 years of contemporary paper-based post Linnaean taxonomy and we
are talking about durability?  Who are we kidding?
For probably more than 60,000 years the indigenous inhabitants of this
continent have been singing biodiversity and the names of plants and
animals to each other:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songlines

When biodiversity becomes such a meme of the modern collective social
psyche, we will have arrived.

Note to self: prepare proposal to trash ICBN and ICZN and replace with
Twitter...  "tweetlines"...

( Remember - you heard this on Taxacon first... )

jim