Last summer on a warm Paris morning, a few dozen members of the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature gathered at the National Museum of Natural History. The occasion was a talk by Jason ...

Botanical Review, Vol. 69, No. 1, Approaches in Examining the Existing Nomenclatural Systems Used in Biology (Jan. - Mar., 2003), pp. 22-43 (22 pages) Nomenclatural systems are structured around ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Move over, Linnaeus: There's a new way of naming organisms. Scientists have formalized an alternative set of rules 285 years after the publication of the first edition of ...

A new book outlines the rules of the PhyloCode, a system for naming organisms based on their evolutionary relationships. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Kevin de Queiroz, a zoologist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History backs a movement to change the way we name species. I quoted him in a story on Carolus Linnaeus, who's ...

Two books launched in June have systematized an alternative method for classifying organisms based on their evolutionary history and relationships to ancestors and descendants, regardless of their ...

Citation Kress, W. John and DePriest, Paula T. 2001. "What's in a PhyloCode name?" Science, 292 52.

Bob Holmes reports on proposals to replace our standard Linnaean system of classifying animals and plants with a new system called the PhyloCode (11 September, p 12). Advocates of this revolution – ...

A band of renegade biologists is taking on a mammoth task that threatens to upset a status quo that has been unchallenged for almost 250 years. Put simply, they want to change the way scientists name ...