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Re: taxonomy, phylogeny and cultonomy

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2001.06.26 at 21:01:31(6889)
David, David, don't you know the difference between a phylogenist and a
phyllogenist!!!???
Wilbert
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----- Original Message -----
To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
Sent: dinsdag 26 juni 2001 2:51
Subject: Re: taxonomy, phylogeny and cultonomy
> Okay, I'll play.
>
> If you bred a taxonomist with a phylogenist would you get a
phyllotaxonomist
> (one who studies the arrangement of leaves on a stem and in relation to
one
> another)?
>
> Is this hybridizing, line breeding or inbreeding?
>
> David Leedy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Boyce
> To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:46 AM
> Subject: taxonomy, phylogeny and cultonomy
>
>
> > All
> >
> > Wilbert's email concerning cultons and cultonomy has got me to
> > thinking that it might be time to review what we call ourselves, based
on
> > what we do.
>
> >I am a taxonomist.
> >
> > I have a student who is called a a phylogenist.
>
> > Answers in an email, please?
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > Peter Boyce
> > Herbarium
> > Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
> > Richmond, Surrey
> > TW9 3AE
> > Tel. (+44) (0)20 8 332 5207
> > fax. (+44) (0)20 8 332 5278
> > email: p.boyce@rbgkew.org.uk (work)
> > boyce@pothos.demon.co.uk (home)
> >
> >
>
>

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