Some systematicists advocate doing away with these levels, and adopting
something they call Phylocode. Look it up. You;ll either find it
weird, and not very useful, or you may say -- why hasn't this come up
before? .
Dave
David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely at lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
"Where are we going?" "I don't know, are we there yet?"
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Stallsmith <fundulus at hotmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:41 pm
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Moribund fish & Life Outside
> No. Different species concepts apply to different organisms. And
> some people
> set up criteria to complicate the process. It sure ain't meaningless.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> along the Tennessee
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
> >From: Mysteryman <bestfish at alaweb.com>
> >Reply-To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
> >To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
> >Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Moribund fish & Life Outside
> >Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:31:10 -0700
> >
> >So, basically, what it comes down to is that "species" is a word
> that, like
> >the word "fish," everyone knows the meaning of yet can't define
> because it
> >is technically meaningless?
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