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Species number - what is a species anyway?

Larry Marshall lmarshal at pnfi.forestry.ca
Wed Feb 16 10:30:57 EST 1994


In <2jsa4kINN2ri at newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> cummins at possum.murdoch.edu.au (Jim Cummins) writes:
>the face of this stupefying diversity.  Perhaps the question we should
>ask is what IS a species, anyway?

The problem with every definition proposed it that they work until they
don't :-)  And, in each case, there are situations where they don't.


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