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Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:32:38 +0000
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: PhyloCode: Re: Sereno05
I was just proposing an idea for PhyloCode. Now I thanks to your emai= l think that PhyloCode should just try to be compatible with any spec= ies definition as you can't I see get everyone on the same bandwagon = anyhow. Some just will not accept the definition of a species given b= y another. Species should be something that is outside of PhyloCode t= echnically and if you have a definition of a species and you want to = make it compatible with Phylocode you should have rules for your defi= nition and so should others. At worst you would have more names for t= he same thing. Yisrael Asper yisraelasper@comcast.net Pittsburgh PA > > --- Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht --- > > Von: yisraelasper@comcast.net >=20 > > So why not have for PhyloCode a species defined as a partial clad= e > > that's made up of all the members and descendents of an immediate > > branch of what would be called by NonPhyloCode usage a Genus excl= uding > > any descendents who are not members of the Genus. So for example = Homo > > is a Genus under NonPhyloCode usage and its immediate branches wo= uld > > be defined as the various Species of Humans for PhyloCode. >=20 > I disagree. Firstly, it would mean that ancestors of a species coul= d never=20 > belong to a species themselves; this is against all current usage.= =20 > Secondly, it would make the PhyloCode dependent on the other codes = to tell=20 > what a genus is -- and remember that one worker's genus is another'= s=20 > subgenus and yet another's tribe or subtribe! Thirdly, it would onl= y add=20 > yet another species concept to the existing... 25? 40? >=20 > Oh, and the example isn't good. Your proposal would probably mean t= he end=20 > of *Homo erectus* and maybe several more of the currently recognize= d, erm,=20 > er, morphospecies. >=20 > --=20 > 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail > +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f=FCr Mail, Message, More +++