Re: PhyloCode implementation date

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

David,
     I can't imagine a moderate like Cantino wants to see the entire 
PhyloCode implemented all at once (including species names).  If the more 
radical proponents prevail and this is done, the probably of failure will 
increase dramatically, but it could do even more damage before it fails than 
if cooler heads like Cantino prevail.  If PhyloCode succeeds at all, it will 
be due to people like Cantino.
     And as for the flying analogy, even airplanes need shock-absorbers 
when they need to land.   If phylogenetic taxonomy tries to do too much too 
fast, a catastrophic crash landing could not only hurt cladistic 
classification, but cladistic analysis as well.  I for one do not look 
forward to a cladistic crash landing, because that would be a lose-lose 
situation in many ways.
                 ---------Ken
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David Marjanovic wrote:
    >Hmmm... just to stay in this analogy... probably cladists will prefer 
to learn to fly over merely using shock absorbers, and they will regard the 
PhyloCode as wings...
> Interesting analogy... The German reunification wasn't a 50:50-affair, 
> rather, the western part has won and the eastern part has lost this part of 
> the Cold War. Probably, IMHO, it will be the same in taxonomy -- the 
> PhyloCode will win out...
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