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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:57:21 +0000
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: PhyloCode: Re: PhyloCode Taxonomic Classifications
> > If PhyloCode wins it will take over the vocabulary of Evolution. >=20 > Sorry, I don't understand that either. ~:-) In dictionaries you have listed specialized uses for words like the w= ord work in=20 ordinary life and the word work in physics. Physics doesn't care how = much=20 someone sweats to declare something work. So if PhyloCode wins it wil= l be used=20 for Evolution irrespective of ordinary usage like with dinosaurs and = birds.=20 > (However, the PhyloCode makes it possible not to use species if you= think=20 > they don't exist. Some people think so.) My goodness! Welcome to the 21st. century! Yisrael Asper yisraelasper@comcast.net Pittsburgh PA > > If PhyloCode wins it will take over the vocabulary of Evolution. >=20 > Sorry, I don't understand that either. ~:-) >=20 > > So with Evolution species is just a construct of language and not > > something that really exists in nature? >=20 > Maybe -- but for the PhyloCode this doesn't matter. The PhyloCode i= s only=20 > for naming clades. The problem of how to name species will be tackl= ed=20 > later, in a separate document. >=20 > (However, the PhyloCode makes it possible not to use species if you= think=20 > they don't exist. Some people think so.) >=20 > --=20 > 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail > +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f=FCr Mail, Message, More +++