The Advent of PhyloCode: The Continuing Evolution of Biological Nomenclature. By Michel Laurin. 2024. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton. 209 pp.

  • Roy Ellen Centre for Biocultural Diversity, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Keywords: Reviews

Author Biography

Roy Ellen, Centre for Biocultural Diversity, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Roy Ellen is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent.

References

Ellen, R. 2023. Identifying Plants as a Process of Cultural Cognition: Comparing Knowledge Production and Communities of Practice in Modern Botanical Science and Nuaulu Ethnobotany. Journal of Ethnobiology 43:208–218. DOI:10.1177/02780771231194153.

Ellen, R. 2024. Plant Identification and Ethnoscience in the Work of Rumphius. History of Anthropology Review 48. Available at: https://histanthro.org/notes/plant-identification-and-ethnoscience/. Accessed on July 1, 2025.

Peeters, A. 1979. Nomenclature and Classification in Rumphius’s ‘Herbarium Amboinense’. In Classifications in Their Social Context, edited by R. F. Ellen and D. Reason, pp. 145–166. Academic Press, London.

Pommerening, T., and W. Bisang, eds. 2017. Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times: Sources, Methods, and Theories from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. De Gruyter, Berlin.

Published
2025-09-15
How to Cite
Ellen, R. (2025). The Advent of PhyloCode: The Continuing Evolution of Biological Nomenclature. By Michel Laurin. 2024. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton. 209 pp. Ethnobiology Letters, 16(1), 113-115. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.16.1.2025.1968
Section
Reviews