Message 2005-12-0058: Re: PhyloCode Taxonomic Classifications

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:29:02 +0100 (MET)

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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:29:02 +0100 (MET)
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: PhyloCode Taxonomic Classifications

> So talk of seeing how to specify species using PhyloCode are not
> strictly a part of PhyloCode?

Yes (at least so far).

> In any event with all the various definitions of species, for
> PhyloCode would the following do?

Good luck trying to convince all biologists of one species concept...

> Species:If sexually produced they are groups of actually or
> potentially interbreeding natural populations

A very good concept as long as we strictly stay in the present. It's=
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almost entirely useless for fossils. Even for extant species it often=
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requires a lot of data that are simply not known.

> but if asexually produced they pass down their own forms with both
> type of groups members diverging from one another towards separate
> species if not prevented from doing so.

I don't understand what you mean.

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