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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mysticete" data-source="post: 3054233" data-attributes="member: 67784">Curious on why the appendices are lacking? It would give me a lot better understanding of the results if I could see what their new classification is like.Generally, I don't feel high level linnean taxonomy is salvageable at this point. Avise (who is cited in the paper) published a similar idea, but if you compare it across organisms you run into problems, such as some genera of fly being equivalent to entire orders of mammals. I am not sure changing the system to reflect that would produce results that any research group would be happy about.</blockquote>