Last summer on a warm Paris morning, a few dozen members of the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature gathered at the National Museum of Natural History. The occasion was a talk by Jason ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Move over, Linnaeus: There's a new way of naming organisms. Scientists have formalized an alternative set of rules 285 years after the publication of the first edition of ...
Kevin de Queiroz, a zoologist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History backs a movement to change the way we name species. I quoted him in a story on Carolus Linnaeus, who's ...
Two books launched in June have systematized an alternative method for classifying organisms based on their evolutionary history and relationships to ancestors and descendants, regardless of their ...
An accompanying volume applies the PhyloCode to major clades of organisms. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...
Citation Kress, W. John and DePriest, Paula T. 2001. "What's in a PhyloCode name?" Science, 292 52.
A band of renegade biologists is taking on a mammoth task that threatens to upset a status quo that has been unchallenged for almost 250 years. Put simply, they want to change the way scientists name ...