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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:01:01 +0200
From: cej@gli.cas.cz
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: another tiresome (and predictable) attack against phylogenetic systematics
> Nomenclature is simply a tool for information retrieval and for = safeguarding understanding. =20 > Directly linking names and cladograms or nodes, respectively - making = them subject to changes by falsification - =20 > would deliberately ignore the primary, strictly utilitarian function=20 > of long-established principles of nomenclature and would endanger an = instrument > that functions almost perfectly. =20 Database ID works PERFECTLY, not just 'almost', an almost working stuff = is a crap...IMHO > Approaches to introduce a so-called PhyloCode should therefore not be = > pursued, > as there is no chance at all that this kind of code could be = generally accepted.=20 Peter. =3D=3D Peter A. Cejchan Lab of Paleobiology and Paleoecology Prague, EU http://www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan =20