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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:11:52 -0600
From: "Richard Swigart (rswigart@yahoo.com)" <rswigart@bwsys.net>
To: PhyloCode Post <PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: interesting style of definition
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_/bGLyuZ1HsGtZXcL9DvZvQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com> To: "-PhyloCode Mailing List-" <PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:47 PM Subject: Re: interesting style of definition > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Mieczyslaw Wolsan wrote: >...=20 > > Second, it is not clear whether "the last common ancestor" is = contained > > in the clade or not (as a non-native English speaker I cannot = evaluate > > this properly, but I do not think that the word "stemming" specifies > > this unambiguously). >=20 > I think it does. PhyloCode uses that word, doesn't it? In deed it does. (see www.phylocode.org <Glossary>)=20 clade:=20 "One of the two kinds of biological entities whose names are governed by = this code; a group of species comprising a common ancestor and all of = its descendants." Richard Swigart --Boundary_(ID_/bGLyuZ1HsGtZXcL9DvZvQ) Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2712.300" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000080>----- Original Message ----- </FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000080>From: "T. Mike Keesey" <</FONT><A=20 href=3D"mailto:tmk@dinosauricon.com"><FONT=20 color=3D#000080>tmk@dinosauricon.com</FONT></A><FONT=20 color=3D#000080>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000080>To: "-PhyloCode Mailing List-" <</FONT><A=20 href=3D"mailto:PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu"><FONT=20 color=3D#000080>PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu</FONT></A><FONT=20 color=3D#000080>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000080>Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:47 = PM</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000080>Subject: Re: interesting style of=20 definition</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000080><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000080>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Mieczyslaw Wolsan=20 wrote:<BR>>... <BR>> > Second, it is not clear whether "the = last common=20 ancestor" is contained<BR>> > in the clade or not (as a non-native = English=20 speaker I cannot evaluate<BR>> > this properly, but I do not think = that=20 the word "stemming" specifies<BR>> > this unambiguously).<BR>> = <BR>>=20 I think it does. PhyloCode uses that word, doesn't it?<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff>In deed it does. (see </FONT><A=20 href=3D"http://www.phylocode.org"><FONT=20 color=3D#0000ff>www.phylocode.org</FONT></A><FONT color=3D#0000ff> = <Glossary>)=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff><STRONG>clade: <BR></STRONG>"One of the two = kinds of=20 biological entities whose names are governed by this code; a group of = species=20 comprising a common ancestor and all of its descendants."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff>Richard Swigart</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_/bGLyuZ1HsGtZXcL9DvZvQ)--