Re: New Arvorec words

bjm10 wrote:
>On Tue, 29 May 2001, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > encounter other intelligent species, what Latin names will we give them?
> > Assuming (pace Le Guin) they are essentially human in form, would we
>have
> > e.g. Homo sapiens Hainensis, or H.s. Gethenensis?  Perhaps the Kash
>could be
>
>We would not call them "Homo" because generic names must be specific.
>This, of course, violates a basic philosophical premise, but it is the
>rules of modern taxonomy.  They could be called anything not already
>taken.  Indeed, given the hard-line cladistics dominating modern
>taxonomy, there might be a movement afoot to set up a complete different
>set of kingdoms for each planet.
If I know the cladisticists, they'd introduce an extra level above that of
kingdom, encompromizing all life on a given planet.

Hm, wait a minute! IRC, there's nowadays a division above kingdom already,
called "super kingdom" I think. There's three of these, Archaeota, Bacteria
and Eukaryota, the last one including the kingdoms Protozoa, fungus, animals
and plants. The extra level to take account of different planets would then
be two levels above kingdom.

                                              Andreas
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