Re: BENTON ON PHYLOCODE

["Jerry D. Harris" <dinogami@hotmail.com>]

> Oh yeah.. I keep mentioning this, but then forget to give the citation...
>
> Benton, M. J. 2000. Stems, nodes, crown clades, and rank-free lists: is
> Linnaeus dead? _Biological Reviews_ 75: 633-648.
>
> A must-read if you are concerned about the code's implications.

  Also somewhat new, and an amusingly-written article, but one with some 
interesting and thought-provoking implications:

Nixon, K.C. and Carpenter, J.M. 2000. On the other 'phylogenetic 
systematics.' Cladistics 16: 298-318.

...which seems (to me) to be a nice counterpoint to:

Cantino, P.D., Bryant, H.N., Quieroz, K. de, Donoghue, M.J., Eriksson, T.
Hillis, D.M., and Lee, M.S.Y. 2000. Species names in phylogenetic 
nomenclature. Systematic Biology 48(4): 790-807.

...as well as some of de Quieroz's (& Gauthier's) earlier papers.  WARNING: 
this paper delves into the philosophical concepts of individuality and 
metaphysial consistency in nomeclatural practice.  Certainly Nixon & 
Carpenter have some rather clear errors in their reasoning, but I do agree 
with some of their points...

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