[Sigia-l] Linnean naming system faces challengers

[Eric Scheid]

something of interest to the taxonomists among us...

Linnean naming system faces challengers
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996369

    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 every living organism on
the planet.

    These rebels say that our system of naming plants, animals, fungi and
bacteria, famously introduced by Linnaeus in 1758, is frustrating efforts to
understand the living world. They want to replace it with a more rational
scheme they call the PhyloCode.

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