RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted?

Posted by: Wulf at Tue Oct 26 03:25:02 2004 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Wulf ]

Hi CKing,

6. ideology. A proposal based on ideology is most likely accepted by those who share the same ideology and rejected by those who have a different ideology. For example, taxonomists who split a species because of his/her subscription to the evolutionary species concept will generally find acceptance among adherents to the same concept but rejection by those who subscribe to a different species concept.

That's exactly the point!
Ideologies always seem to ignore facts and knowledge. Things that were right once (and perhaps still are) are simply ignored or being argued.
Species concepts are not more than tools that may help to provide someone's findings. One concept perhaps does better than others, but does that mean that all others are wrong? It sometimes look like that.

7. fashion. A proposal to split taxa, for example, on the basis of phenetic differences is much more likely to be acceptable to most biologists when phenetics was fashionable, as it was during the 1970's. A phenetic classification is much less likely to be accepted today, since cladistics is fashionable.

Same here! Are phenetic characters nowadays inevident or do "modern" taxonomists only accept finding based on what they call "state of the art" methods?

Cheers,
Wulf
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Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - Wulf, Sun Oct 24 05:14:31 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - CKing, Sun Oct 24 19:27:18 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - Wulf, Tue Oct 26 03:25:02 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - WW, Tue Oct 26 06:33:06 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - CKing, Thu Oct 28 10:18:38 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - WW, Mon Oct 25 09:26:09 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - Wulf, Mon Oct 25 12:44:05 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - WW, Tue Oct 26 06:55:01 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - CKing, Fri Oct 29 22:16:32 2004

RE: Species concepts and typological thinking - CKing, Fri Oct 29 12:57:10 2004

RE: Though, what is it, that makes a taxonomic proposal widely accepted? - ScottThomson, Fri Nov 5 07:25:20 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - CKing, Fri Nov 5 11:24:34 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - ScottThomson, Fri Nov 5 11:50:35 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - CKing, Fri Nov 5 17:38:37 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - Wulf, Fri Nov 5 18:49:47 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - ScottThomson, Fri Nov 5 20:25:09 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - CKing, Fri Nov 5 23:03:45 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - CKing, Fri Nov 5 21:28:35 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - WW, Mon Nov 8 04:02:55 2004

RE: The role of morphology in systematics - CKing, Mon Nov 8 21:59:12 2004

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