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

[Stephen Thorpe]

So you think that a classification frozen in time for 5 years is more likely to 'accurately reflect evolutionary history'??

Stephen

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On Sun, 12/7/15, Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New paper: Ruggiero et al. "A Higher Level	Classification of All Living Organisms"
 To: "'Taxacom'" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Sunday, 12 July, 2015, 10:45 AM
 
 > 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
 
 
 
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