[Taxacom] Phylocode vs Linnean nomenclature, again.

Paul van Rijckevorsel dipteryx at freeler.nl
Sat Apr 16 11:18:15 CDT 2011


From: "Curtis Clark" <lists at curtisclark.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:28 AM

> Linnaean naming, as practiced in the latter part of the 20th C, had two 
> issues that made it difficult for phylogeneticists to use. 

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This appears to confuse phylogeny with cladistics, as many cladists do
(either through being ignorant or indifferent). There was phylogenetic
thinking long before there was such a thing as cladistics ...

Paul




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