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Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:33:02 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
To: List PhyloCode <PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Re: New Dinosauricon Taxon Pages: _Therizinosauria_
Forwarded from the DML with Luc Beilly's permission (Luc is not currently subscribed): --- Aspidel <aspidel@wanadoo.be> wrote: > Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 19:22:56 +0100 > From: "Aspidel" <aspidel@wanadoo.be> > To: <dinosaur@usc.edu> > Subject: Re: New Dinosauricon Taxon Pages: _Therizinosauria_ > > > From: "Jaime A. Headden" > > > Lest we misunderstand, the practical method of this is for fossils, > not > > living species, which I wrote in the hinter end of the post. > > For extant species, this method would be a mess: for example, plants, > you > have _Poa pratensis_, _Festuca pratensis_, _Cardamine pratensis_, and > the 2 > first are grasses... :-( > > > For fossil taxa, the effect of species nomenclature would be far > less > > problematic, > > Hmmm... You still have _Tyrannosaurus rex_, _Othnielia rex_, > _Velociraptor > mongoliensis_, _Saurornithoides mongoliensis_, _Oviraptor > mongoliensis_... > > Why not to keep the binomial name, even if we consider the genus isn't > important? A case of "nomen conservandum" because people, even > scientists, > are used to. > > BTW, in the definition of "species" in paleontology, there's another > problem. Hybrids (mostly sterile) are known in extant birds. Now let's > suppose 2 "real" species of _Caudipteryx_, I mean imagine them alive. > Let's > imagine hybrids occur, and now we've found a skeleton of what was a > hybrid. > Of course we don't know it was a hybrid. We'll probably describe and > name a > 3rd species of _Caudipteryx_ intermediate between the 2 others, it's > logical. > > Just my 2 cents. Cheers - Aspidel. > > ps: you can forward to the PhyloCode if it's worth doin'it. > > > > ===== Jaime A. Headden Little steps are often the hardest to take. We are too used to making leaps in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do. We should all learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it. "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com