RE: Taxa nomy?

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

David Craven 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).

Really?  Where are these new additions appearing on a regular basis?  One of 
the major features of phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature ('cladistics') 
is that such divisions are no more.

> Even cladistics needs some form of "divisions" to organise evolutionary 
> linkage.

Why does it?  Why can't we just convey evolutionary relationships as a 
cladogram?  I would say hierarchial divisions are no longer needed at all.

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