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| | "Phylocode debate -- Mike Lee (for); Gary Nelson (against)" |
 | | Descent from a common ancestral organism -- an Eve or Adam or both? For taxa generally -- a natural order, genus, or species -- Linnaeus had the same view. For him, each natural order, genus, and species comprises the offspring of a single organism, or if the sexes are separate, from an original pair. |
 | | Phylocodists dismiss Linnaeus as an essentialist, typologist, Aristotelian. Think about it. Theirs is an essentialist approach to history -- as if the historical Linnaeus has an essence or type, The Aristotelian, which is to be vanquished so that The King Be Dead, Long Live the King. |
 | | Much of the Phylocode appears in a paper of 1992 in the Annual Review of Ecology and Sstematics. |
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