Message 2004-02-0025: Fwd: Re: RE: a comment on ancestor

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:47:12 -0400

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:47:12 -0400
From: Philip Cantino <cantino@ohiou.edu>
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Fwd: Re: RE: a comment on ancestor

Igor wrote:
>
>For instance, I see no causes not to
>preserve taxonomic dyagnoses in the PhyloCode, at least in form of
>synapomorphy list, without which allocation of a new item to already
>established classification will appear a very sophisticated task.


This is retained in Recommendation 9D.  Although a recommendation
rather than a rule, I suspect most people will follow it because they
will want their names and definitions to be easily usable.



>I know
>several persons over here who tried to apply PhyloCode rules in their
>practical revisions but finally rejected this practice just because of
>unpracticality of these rules.

I would be interested to know which rules they found impractical.


Phil


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