Re: [tdwg-content] New terms need resolution: "Individual"

Hmmm....in the spirit of this statement:

populations are definitively NOT always taxa. They may be in some specific circumstances but dont deserve the general term

....I would respond to the following statement:

taxa are actually not opinions based but hypotheses inferred by phylogenies, unless a tested hypothesis

qualifies

for an opinion.

With this statement:

[taxa] are definitively NOT always [hypotheses]. They may be in some specific circumstances but dont deserve the general term

...but I think we digress.....

:-)

Aloha, Rich