Wednesday, 29 October 2003 - 11:48 AM
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This presentation is part of : Ten-Minute Papers, Section A. Systematics, Morphology, and Evolution

The Phylocode does not lead to stability and is not useful

John W. Wenzel, Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Department of Entomology, Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH

Phylocode has already received generous space in the scientific as well as the semi-popular press. The Phylocode is promoted by misinformation about what it is against, what the system will do, and what is the contrast between our current system and the Phylocode. The Phylocode proposal is not useful and does not lead to stability of concepts in classification. Because these are the stated goals of the Phylocode, it fails in its primary purpose.

Keywords: systematics

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