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Re: New content on the IAS Web site

From: Iza & Carol Goroff goroff at idcnet.com> on 2001.04.16 at 02:22:23(6185)
Al Wootten wrote:
> Taxonomy was the subject of an interesting article in Science Vol 291 No 5512
> p2304 entitled "Linnaeus's Last Stand". It reports a then-impending
> (30-31 March) Sympsoium in D. C. on a new system for classification which
> the call 'PhyloCode'. Under this proposal, "which seeks to reflect
> phylogenetic relationships, genus names could be lost, species names
> shortened, hyphenated with former genus descriptor, or given a numeric
> designation. The critics are not happy." The article is extensive and
> interesting (though I can imagine this proposal's acceptance in aroid-l
> would be scant).
Notice the article's date, add a day to the end, and perhaps that's why we haven't
heard more about it.
Iza Goroff
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Whitewater Wisconsin USA

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