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<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" xmlns:a="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" xmlns:odc="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:q="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:x2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" xmlns:ois="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" xmlns:dir="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:dsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:udc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sub="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/" xmlns:ec="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" xmlns:sp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" xmlns:sps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:udcxf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" xmlns:wf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" xmlns:mver="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:mrels="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships" xmlns:ex12t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:ex12m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:Z="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Perhaps my comment goes beyond polychaetes and METAMERISM, but here it goes.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I do believe that ecology (and perhaps biology) is contaminated with wordy jargon. My field is population dynamics, i.e. changes in population numbers: one of the main problems is terminology. It is striking how while some authors pursue the definition of ecological laws from concepts / theories / hypotheses (in population dynamics) as the holy grail, there is no consensus about what the basic term REGULATION stands for. The situation gets worse for controversial terms like DENSITY DEPENDENCE despite its use has rocketed in the ecological literature during the last 20 years. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I sometimes think that a taxonomy of concepts is required in ecology (and perhaps biology), where the acceptance and validity of terms should be subjected to rules and authorship. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Terminological consensus is required at the expense of individual egos, and across disciplines and research approaches (theoretical versus empirical, or pure versus applied science). The tax we pay for lack of terminological consensus is lack of communication.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Salva<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Salvador Herrando-Pérez School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Office phone: +61 8 8303 5254 / Office fax: +61 8 8303 4347 / Mobile phone: +61 406049010 <a href="https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/salvador.herrando-perez">https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/salvador.herrando-perez</a> / salvador.herrando-perez@adelaide.edu.au<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'> From: annelida-bounces@oat.bio.indiana.edu [mailto:annelida-bounces@oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of J. Kirk Fitzhugh Sent: 12 November 2008 12:16 To: annelida Subject: Re: [Annelida] metamerism<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> It's all relative. While what gets published today might not be so steeped in verbiage, it can be destitute of scientific merit. Yet, it gets printed. ...K <o:p></o:p> <pre>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>J. Kirk Fitzhugh, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Curator of Polychaetes<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Invertebrate Zoology Section<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Research & Collections Branch<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>900 Exposition Blvd<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Los Angeles CA 90007<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Phone: 213-763-3233<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>FAX: 213-746-2999<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>e-mail: <a href="mailto:kfitzhug@nhm.org">kfitzhug@nhm.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.nhm.org/research/annelida/staff.html">http://www.nhm.org/research/annelida/staff.html</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.nhm.org/research/annelida/index.html">http://www.nhm.org/research/annelida/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></pre> Geoff Read wrote: <o:p></o:p> <pre>Lankester's prose can be dense with neologisms. Try getting this (below) into print today. (there are 13 of his metamerism laws).<o:p></o:p></pre> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>

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