Populations and metapopulations are real entities but subspecies is definitively an artificial concept. Now that is I deed an opinion! I don't get your flow Greg. But aren't individuals populations taxa etc etc all biologicalEntities?
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On Jul 12, 2011, at 3:08 AM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com wrote:
represent a single taxon. I think that Individual is probably not a good name due to confusion with the technical use of that term elsewhere.
TaxonInstance seems to me to be perhaps most precise. Personally I have a problem merging individual with population, since population -> metapopulation -> subspecies form a continuum in my understanding. But I am quite willing to be pragmatical :-)
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