Message 2005-08-0012: Fwd: Dick Olmstead's message/Articles in American Scientist

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:58:04 -0400

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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


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>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


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