Re: taxonomy, phylogeny and cultonomy


Okay, I'll play.

If you bred a taxonomist with a phylogenist would you get a phyllotaxonomist
(one who studies the arrangement of leaves on a stem and in relation to one
another)?

Is this hybridizing, line breeding or inbreeding?

David Leedy


----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Boyce <p.boyce@rbgkew.org.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L <aroid-l@mobot.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: taxonomy, phylogeny and cultonomy


> All
>
> Wilbert's email concerning cultons and cultonomy has got me to
> thinking that it might be time to review what we call ourselves, based on
> what we do.

>I am a taxonomist.
>
> I have a student who  is called a a phylogenist.

> Answers in an email, please?
>
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