DANGER: PhyloCode

[Thomas Lammers]

A search of the archives will turn up my own arguments in that direction a
few years ago when this foolishness first erupted.  It'll be a cold day in
hell before I allow such nonsense to cloak itself in the scientific
respectability of "formal nomenclature."

At 09:49 AM 3/6/02 -0600, Ken Kinman wrote:

>I have previously said that PhyloCode is probably coming, like it or
>not, and I thought it prudent to make suggestions on making it minimally
>disruptive and maximally useful.  However, what I have recently learned
>has changed all that. PhyloCode is a clear and present danger to the
>stability of nomenclature, and it should be resisted at every opportunity.

Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
phone:      920-424-1002
fax:           920-424-1101

Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.

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