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

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> > Family Hylobatidae
> >  Genus Hylobates
> > Family Pongidae
> >  Genus Gorilla
> >  Genus Pongo
> >  Genus Pan
> > Family Hominidae
> >  Genus Homo
> >
> > Family Hylobatidae
> >  Genus Bunopithecus
> >  Genus Hylobates
> >  Genus Nomascus
> >  Genus Symphalangus
> > Family Hominidae
> > Subfamily Ponginae
> >  Genus Pongo
> > Subfamily Homininae
> >  Genus Gorilla
> >  Genus Homo
> >  Genus Pan
>
> as far as I can tell, these are two different cladograms *as well as* two 
> different classifications.

That's the "great" thing about classifications: you can't tell a cladogram 
from them. Even under the -- nonexistant! -- requirement that every taxon be 
monophyletic, I could make up lots of phylogenetic trees compatible with one 
_or both_ classifications.

In the upper classification, though, Pongidae was paraphyletic. Not wrong --  
paraphyletic.