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Notes on the Species and Subspecies in Palaeontology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. S. McKerrow
W. S. McKerrow
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford.
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Abstract

The view is put forward that, as any subdivisions of an evolving plexus must be arbitrary, the existing binomial system of nomenclature should continue to be applied to morphological species in palaeontology, rather than be replaced by any other arbitrary system which could not be applied generally.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , April 1952 , pp. 148 - 151
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

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