[Taxacom] New paper: Ruggiero et al. "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms"

[Richard Pyle]

> Yes, you did miss something, i.e. the point! My point was that
classification
> (particularly when based on phylogenetic analyses) is continuously
changing
> with new information coming in all the time. Yet, I strongly suspect that
it
> may be something like at least a decade before CoL, etc. think about
> reviewing the results of Ruggiero et al. (2015).

Yes!  Exactly!!!  That is, indeed, the POINT of the consensus
classification:  Stability >> Accuracy*

*"Accuracy", as used here, effectively means "based on new information
coming in all the time".  However... many (myself included) would argue that
there is not a particularly good correlation between a classification "based
on new information coming in all the time", and a more generalized
definition of the word "Accuracy", in the sense of "a classification that
accurately reflects evolutionary history" (.... whatever that means....)

Aloha,
Rich