But the way these taxonomies are designed does not seem immediately obvious, nor does it seem like one of the fundamental questions that their respective fields struggle with.
If I inquire “why is life classified the way it is ?”, I think the best steelman of a biologist my mind can come up with will answer something like:
I think that ignores what happened in the last two decades. We do have the OBO Foundry ontologies that follow the explicit framework of Basic Formal Ontology as layed out by Barry Smith et al.
As far as the domain of species go, as we got efficient DNA sequencing we changed our way of classify species to be more centered around DNA.
I think that ignores what happened in the last two decades. We do have the OBO Foundry ontologies that follow the explicit framework of Basic Formal Ontology as layed out by Barry Smith et al.
As far as the domain of species go, as we got efficient DNA sequencing we changed our way of classify species to be more centered around DNA.