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- noun A draft Code of formal
nomenclature intended to allow namingphylogenetic groups, of all living things, rather thantaxonomic groups (taxa ). Officially, such names are intended to supplementscientific names rather than replace them.
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The PhyloCode would create a formal set of rules for phylogenetic nomenclature that associates names with "clades," or groups of organisms that share one common ancestor.
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"There has (already) been a movement away from rank-based to tree-based approaches in biology, and the PhyloCode is just the nomenclatural manifestation of this movement."
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"There has (already) been a movement away from rank-based to tree-based approaches in biology, and the PhyloCode is just the nomenclatural manifestation of this movement."
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The PhyloCode would create a formal set of rules for phylogenetic nomenclature that associates names with "clades," or groups of organisms that share one common ancestor.
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Under the PhyloCode a named taxon must represent a hypothesis of monophyly.
Planet Atheism Pharyngula 2010
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Naming animals and plants according to evolutionary principles rather than arbitrary ranks is actually closer to how taxonomy worked for Linnaeus, de Queiroz said (read more of his thoughts on PhyloCode here .
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Naming animals and plants according to evolutionary principles rather than arbitrary ranks is actually closer to how taxonomy worked for Linnaeus, de Queiroz said (read more of his thoughts on PhyloCode here .
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