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I understand how and why they have the naming system they do, I just am claiming that it’s become less and less helpful for amateur identification in favor of w
by jakear 5y ago
I understand how and why they have the naming system they do, I just am claiming that it’s become less and less helpful for amateur identification in favor of what scientists consider useful. I propose an alternative naming convention based only on the expressed characteristics as discoverable by the human eye rather than whatever DNA happens to be in the plant and how that may or may not relate to whatever DNA happens to be in other plants. Basically just demoting the value of DNA in favor of things you can actually see. This clearly wouldn’t replace the existing classifications, merely provide an alternative for folks looking for more explainable names.
Just like how a computer scientist might classify computer programs by instruction set, frameworks, libraries, etc. (things that show up clearly in the machine code but cannot be easily observed from the surface); but a layperson would just use UI and available features (things that are nearly indecipherable from the machine code but immediately obvious on cursory glance)