Thanks, Woofie.
>> I might be mostly wrong, but I feel strongly about it!
I know that it's unreasonable to expect scientists to consider non-scientists' convenience very much while pursuing their holy quest.
And once you've committed to the species name BEING a statement of its speculative ancestry, you're stuck with the name changing so often that you need a calendar to translate any text more than a few weeks old.
And discovering a plausible family tree of every microbial species is a great thing now that it's possible to use DNA sequences to know what bacillus dallied with which procaryote many million or a few billion years ago.
I just wish that the needs of the many who need usable names for plants and microbes were being weighed against the desires of taxonomists and the ICN to use ingoing research results to changes "names" continuously.
As if my screen name contained my age and weight and hair length. People "would just have to keep track" of my current stats so they could "just know" that the person they loaned $10 to last week (620617.3103.5) was also the person now known as (620627.3053.75) . What kind of a "name" would that be?!?
