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

Richard Pyle deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Fri Jul 15 08:52:11 CEST 2011


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





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