KentPfeiffer said:
Taxonomy is really just a mechanism to help us make sense out of a bewilderingly complex world. One of the reasons it works is because the researchers involved have all agreed to play by the same rules. The ability to change names is a critical aspect of those rules. Whether they understand it or not, if the 'don't change anything' people had their way, the end result would be chaos (which is what we had before the development of taxonomic systems).
Just trying to figure things out and keep track of things, is all.
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