Re: The PhyloCode will not address the naming of species (Was The Papers That Ate Cincinnati)

[Anthony Docimo <keenir@hotmail.com>]

> You have missed something: Classes, families, orders and phyla are not 
> discovered. They are made up.
>
> Clades are discovered.

what makes a clade name any different from the above?

> Their names are made up, but they can be defined. What _ranks_ are given to 
> those names is an _entirely_ subjective decision. Surely you have noticed 
> that no two published classifications of any group are identical: that's 
> because nobody can say that any classification is right or wrong, _

really?

so, who is it who says that the new critters {that live *only* on lobster 
eyebrows} are _not_ a new phylum? *curious*

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