Re: The Papers That Ate Cincinnati

[Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>]

> The goal of the PhyloCode is the ability to unambiguously associate a
> name with a group. If a group does not consist of one ancestor and all
> of its descendants, then it doesn't get a clade name under the
> PhyloCode.

okay, I'll try asking again, hoping I'm a little clearer this time.

in the past, the Hoatzin (again, as a real example) has been put into one 
group after another...with chickens, ganules, even mockingbirds if I recall.

so, if PhyloCode gives scientific names based on its evolutionary relations, 
what happens when a critter needs to be reclassified?

(for that matter, how many fossils were thought to be one thing (ie 
dinosaur, mammal), and turned out to be something else?  (ie, vice versa))

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