Re: Taxa nomy?

[zone65@bigpond.com]

On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 12:17  AM, Craven, David wrote:

> As far as I'm concerned it's currently a massive free-for-all with new
> additions to the Linnean basis appearing on a regular basis 
> (Super-family,
> Super-order, sub-order, tribe).
> We need some amazing "Super-Symposium" on an international stage to 
> thrash
> out a usable system for all of us.
> Even cladistics needs some form of "divisions" to organise evolutionary
> linkage.
>
> That's my opinion anyway.
>
> David Craven

It definitely seems to be in a state of anarchy. The concept of 
cladistics is nowhere near as "elegant" as some adherents claim.

Peter M