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Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 21:41:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>
To: Kevin de Queiroz <Dequeiroz.Kevin@NMNH.SI.EDU>
Cc: PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: Aesthetic Note (semi-humorous)
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Kevin de Queiroz wrote:
> Not really. There's nothing wrong with ranks as long as they have
> nothing to do with the meanings of names. And what makes you think
> that the ranks in the organization of the PhyloCode are absolute? It
> would hardly compromise the PhyloCode if the Articles were called
> Rules, the Sections called Chapters, etc. Sorry about the nit
> picking, but it's been a long day.
Well, I was nitpicking, too, but I was trying to be absurd.
Now, to be even *more* absurd, a cladogram of PhyloCode:
--+--Preface
|--Preamble
|--Principles
|--Rules
| |--Taxa
| | |--The Nature of Taxa
| | |--Clades
| | `--Hierarchy and Rank
| |--Publication
| | |--Publication Requirements
| | `--Publication Date
| |--Names
| | |--Status
| | `--Establishment
| | |--General Requirements
| | `--Registration
| |--Clade Names
| | |--General Requirements for Establishment of Clade Names
| | |--Selection of Clade Names for Establishment
| | `--Specifiers and Qualifying Clauses
| |--Selection of Accepted Names
| | |--Precedence
| | |--Homonymy
| | |--Synonymy
| | `--Conservation
| |--Provisions for Hybrids
| |--Orthography
| | |--Orthographic Requirements for Establishment
| | `--Subsequent Use and Correction of Established Names
| |--Authorship of Names
| |--Citation
| `--Governance
|--Glossary
|--Equivalence of Nomenclatural Terms
`--Registration Procedures and Data Requirements
Quite a ridiculous bunch of polytomies. Even worse if the order were
changed!
Believe it or not, just having fun --
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