Re: Ecualypts now placed in Corymbia
- To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Ecualypts now placed in Corymbia
- From: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia)
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:39:00 -0700
sean.ohara@poboxes.com writes:
>Just when you were getting to know Eucalypts, eh? Oh, well. Botanists
>have to make a living too! ;-)
This reminds me of something i saw on a constructed languages website:
Planting A Seed For Botanical
Nomenclature
NPR
National Public Radio's All Things
Considered
yesterday talked about a controversial
proposal at the current International
Botanic
Congress to reclassify half of all
plants and
rename many of them, as new genetic
research has provided better insights
into the
interrelationships of plant life. It
is a rare
opportunity for botanists to be
language
modelers. Proposals ranged from having
a
unified naming scheme that unites the
Linnean
model with the new genetic model
(disliked by
traditionalists because of the need to
change
some names) to having two separate
systems
of nomenclature (disliked by the
geneticists,
who would like to see the names
reflect the
new view of reality).
They even have a link to the recorded newscast that you can hear on a Real
Audio player
That article was found here: http://www.langmaker.com
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