Re: New content on the IAS Web site
- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
- Subject: Re: New content on the IAS Web site
- From: I* &* C* G*
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:22:23 -0500 (CDT)
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
Whitewater Wisconsin USA
