Dear Colleagues, As long as we are considering the Cellinese et al proposal to eliminate the privilege of species, I would like to submit some reasons why I believe (with many) that apomorphy-based definitions should also be eliminated. The attached proposal offers some rationales, not all of which are particularly original; but I think on balance that doing without apomorphy-based definitions will relieve confusion among rank and file taxonomists and will also potentially eliminate a lot of poorly conceived definitions contributed to the database. I welcome everyone's comments, and I hope that there can be a reasonable time for comments to be posted by the general community. Thanks -- kp -- Kevin Padian Department of Integrative Biology & Museum of Paleontology University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-3140 510-642-7434 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/padian/home.php -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CPN proposal against apo-based defs.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 55052 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/cpn/attachments/20120110/7b0d9c35/attachment-0001.bin
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