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12 2 - Naming the Child Let us begin by doing away with the ill-conceived 1 Law of Priority !! Scientific disciplines in general seek maximum objectivity and precision. Yet, with Taxonomy there is acceptance of even the most ambiguous and nonsensical name for a species, in the misguided belief that this Law will make a paragon of the little monster, creating stability and clarity. But in this computerized day and age, this obsolete Law can much more efficiently and surely be replaced by enabling reference to a worldwide databank — a new kind of “Zoological and Botanical Record” — literally at one’s fingertips: a Central Biological Catalogue, and thus from now on governed by a Law of Reference ! To that end, a subject should be given that name which fits it best, and leave all other candidates out, regardless of how recently or long ago that name was first coined, and no matter whether it came from a distinguished professional or an obscure amateur. Names of authors and dates of description — the so-called “indications” — would appear in this Catalogue only as a supplement, not directly linked to the name itself, i.e. as information for people interested in archives. A researcher, WALCKENAER, who published an extensive study about spiders in 1805, concluded that LINNAEUS had listed far too many disparate species under the same generic name, and that they should therefore be distributed over a greater number of genera. So, e.g. he thought up the genus Epaira for the cross or garden spider, naming it Epeira diadema. But no, because LINNAEUS’ work of 1758 preceded his, only the name Aranea diadema was considered worthy of official acceptance, thus perpetuating the confusion. Naturally, deciding on the most appropriate name 2 should entail an accurate assessment of all the
elevant facts about the group under consideration. Including a situation where new findings — either theoretical or observed — may make it necessary to alter an existing and accepted name, despite its previous validity. Now, since it remains essential to know exactly which species or genus is affected, this is where the Law of Reference comes into play. It will, in all required instances, also give the Catalogue Number — a listing procedure for which the established Decimal Classification seems ready-made. The new CBC Databank could output a totality of detail on any taxon or species, or even subspecies. And if anyone is interested in the historic background, all the names ever assigned, plus when and where and by whom, could be accessed too. Except that there would no longer be any real need to preserve all those little known and often unpronounceable personal names. So the globeflower might be fully catalogued as: Trollius laxus CBC 34-1056. At the moment of publication, this system of cataloguing all living things in a worldwide databank may appear like sciencefiction to some, not aware yet of the BioCode commotion. However, even they cannot stay blind for the explosive growth of information technology nor for this practicability being near at hand. In fact, such cataloguing would and should become a fully automated process, provided it is modelled on the way the human brain stores and accesses its information. 5 No formally constituted overseeing authority (always lagging behind) would any longer be necessary if the CBC — through on-lining with other databanks — continually monitors all the relevant books and periodicals. If a given name allocation is found in, say, five (distinctly) different sources during, say, three consecutive years, then this name will become officially recognized and recorded as such — without any human intervention! While no specialist could ever hope to consult each and every member of his profession, the CBC would be able to achieve total and simultaneous coverage and thus enable consensus to be reached as expeditiously as possible. 5 The author also conceived a set of algorithms enabling a parsing programme to automatically determine the subject of a given text. 13
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