On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Paul Murray <pmurray@anbg.gov.au> wrote:
On 31/05/2011, at 9:10 PM, Nico Cellinese wrote:
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(The taxa "organisms that have the front half of a horse" and "organisms that have the back half of a horse" would be synonymous if not for the occasional zebra/horse hybrid. [...]
Oooh, No, No, Nooooo: "The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion." Widely attributed to Woody Allen, and quoted in one or both of Robert Willensky's magnificent Lisp books, "LispCraft" and "Common LISPcraft" in the material---surprise!---on namespaces. Oh, wait, that's an argument about individuals. Sorry. Bob -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 IT Staff Filtered Push Project Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University email: morris.bob@gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)