Message 2005-05-0012: PhyloCode

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:37:03 -0500

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:37:03 -0500
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: PhyloCode

I read about the PhyloCode in Discover Magazine. The only thing that =
seems
frightening about it would be if names are redefined in it. People wo=
uld not
like to have to call birds Reptilia for instance. So Ithink there sho=
uld be
a rule
for PhyloCode set that whenever a would be PhyloCode definition for a=
 word
would otherwise differ from a definition already accepted even from
PhyloCode, that a new term be made instead, with the otherwise old na=
me
being
declared from the point of view of PhyloCode as describing a nonexist=
ent
category.

Yisrael Asper




  

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