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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:58:04 -0400
From: Philip Cantino <cantino@ohiou.edu>
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Fwd: Dick Olmstead's message/Articles in American Scientist
Kevin's letter appears in the latest (Sept-Oct) issue of American Scientist. Unfortunately, there is a 0.5 MB limit on messages sent to listservs administered by Ohio University. I cannot do anything about this. Phil >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:07:30 -0400 >From: Kevin de Queiroz <Dequeiroz.Kevin@NMNH.SI.EDU> >Subject: Dick Olmstead's message/Articles in American Scientist >To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu >X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621, Antispam-Engine: 2.0.2.0, >Antispam-Data: 2005.8.15.14 (pm4) >X-PMX-Information: http://www.cns.ohiou.edu/email/filtering/ >X-PMX-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, >__CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT >0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_HTML 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, >__SANE_MSGID 0, __TAG_EXISTS_HTML 0' > >Content-type: text/html >Content-description: HTML > >Thanks to Dick Olmstead for letting the list know about the article >on the PhyloCode in the American Scientist. I tried to attach to an >earlier message a pdf of the article (by Roger Harris) as well as >one of a message from the President (Lynn Margulis) that criticizes >the PhyloCode, but apparently they exceeded the file size limit for >this list. I should also mention that I have sent a letter to the >American Scientist trying to clarify both Harris' point that the >traditional rank-based approach was developed by Linnaeus and >Margulis' criticism that the PhyloCode assumes an inappropriate >model of evolutionary trees. As background for the first point, I >also tried to send a separate message with a recently published >paper comparing nomenclature as it was practiced by Linnaeus and >other 18th century naturalists with both rank-based and phylogenetic >nomenclature, but this also exceeded the limit. If we are able to >increase the size limit, I will try to resend these pdfs at a later >time. >Kevin >15 Aug 2005 -- Philip D. Cantino Professor and Associate Chair Department of Environmental and Plant Biology Ohio University Athens, OH 45701-2979 U.S.A. Phone: (740) 593-1128; 593-1126 Fax: (740) 593-1130 e-mail: cantino@ohio.edu