14 Jul
2011
14 Jul
'11
09:51
On 14 July 2011 08:41, Richard Pyle deepreef@bishopmuseum.org wrote:
My turn to disagree (strongly, in this case). It's not an instance of a taxon, it's an instance of an Organism. A taxon is merely a non-factual (i.e., opinion-based) attribute of an organism, secondarily associated via an Identification instance.
WIth respect to organism: strictly, Viruses are not organisms, but I could live with that. But the goal is to find a term including population. Population definitely is not an organism.
I believe the instances of taxon are organisms, populations, individuals.
Gregor