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Should paleontologists use "phylogenetic" nomenclature?
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"What's the use of their having names", the Gnat said, "if they won't answer to them?". "No use to them" said Alice; "but its useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?" Alice Through the Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll (1871).
Thanks to the Linnaean system of Biological Nomenclature systematics these days is an ordered discipline. Debates over specifics still abound, but there is little argument that taxonomy should reflect the current state...
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The Linnaean system and its 250-year persistence.
The Botanical Review
; II. Introduction Biological nomenclature is a communication system. It provides a way for systematists and others to talk about taxa. As such, names have meaning only when those who use them jointly understand the concepts attached to them. Those concepts may refer to the attributes of individual
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Should paleontologists use "phylogenetic" nomenclature?
Journal of Paleontology
; "What's the use of their having names", the Gnat said, "if they won't answer to them "No use to them" said Alice; "but its useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?" Alice Through the Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll (1871). Thanks to the Linnaean system
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Should We Junk Linnaeus?
Science News
; ... about it and others who were appalled. Taxonomist Alan Whittemore of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis told SCIENCE NEWS that the so-called Linnaean system has been modified extensively over the past few generations to reflect phylogenetic thinking ...
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DNA Science Challenges Sweden's Famed Botanist
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
; ... DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. If you can sit on a park bench or stroll ... we might not be celebrating Linnaeus today. Addie Goss, NPR News, Washington. Copyright 2005 National Public Radio, Inc.. All ...
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The PhyloCode is fatally flawed, and the "Linnaean" System can easily be fixed.
The Botanical Review
; ... Nomenclature. Ed. 4. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London. Milius, S. 1999. Should we junk Linnaeus? Sci. News, October 23: 268. Nixon, K. C. 1999. The parsimony ratchet, a new method for rapid parsimony analysis. Cladistics 15: 407-414 ...
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Apomorphy-based definition also pinpoints a node, and PhyloCode names prevent effective communication.
The Botanical Review
; ... come to my birthday party, to be held at the place indicated on a map by a mark that includes A and D, and I include several maps on which ABD, AcD, ACD, ADf, and so forth are marked, I will certainly lose my best friend! Such marks are defined, but they ...
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Critique of pure folly.
The Botanical Review
; ... 2003. Taxonomy: Renaissance or Tower of Babel? Trends Ecol. Evol. 18 (2): 57-59. Milius, S. 1999. Should we junk Linnacus? Sci. News, October 23: 268. Nixon, K. C. & J. M. Carpenter. 2000. On the other Phylogenetic Systematics. Cladistics 16: 298-318. Pennisi ...
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Phylogenetic nomenclature and paleontology
Journal of Paleontology
; THAT TAXONOMYshould be phylogenetic-i.e., that named taxa should be restricted to monophyletic groups-is widely accepted throughout systematic biology. A recently proposed phylogenetic nomenclatural system (de Queiroz and Gauthier, 1990, 1992, 1994; Cantino and de Queiroz, 2000) goes further by
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Mix-in and match to survive in wild.(LIFE - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Gabriella Boston, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Some use stripes, others wear dull shades, and a third can change its colors on a dime. Animal camouflage comes in many varieties, but the goal is universal - to increase life expectancy. Basically, animal camouflage has evolved to increase the fitness
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Lizard on the Loose Shakes Up Va. Neighborhood
The Washington Post
; Godzilla is loose, and no one can find him. The eight-foot-long lizard escaped from his owner's home in Chesapeake, Va., on Monday night and has since eluded more than a dozen searchers who have combed the woods nearby. His disappearance has inspired a frenzy of jokes, but more than a little
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