John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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Category: Biology • History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Posted on: May 23, 2007 4:41 AM, by John Lynch
As, no doubt, many will be posting today, Linnaeus (the "father of modern taxonomy") was born 300 years ago. It's a pity a tiny minority of taxonomists still dont get the genius of what he achieved under the guise of "complet[ing] the Darwinian revolution".
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I think you are being unfair to the Phylocode. When De Candolle formalised the present Linnaean scheme in 1867, he mentioned explicitly that one day it would need to be abandoned as a patchwork system. I don't agree with the Phylocode myself, but it is not because they lack appreciation for Linnaeus.
Posted by: John Wilkins | May 23, 2007 6:56 AM
Yeah, I guess I spent too much time with Quentin Wheeler last week :)
Posted by: John Lynch | May 23, 2007 12:58 PM