Dichotomy
    Jim Croft 
    jrc at ANBG.GOV.AU
       
    Wed Mar 22 00:21:16 CST 1995
    
    
  
Renaud Fortuner wrote:
> Identification is always a probabilistic process.
> Unless you are a pompous egotistic fool, you can never be 100% sure that you
> have correctly identified a species.
Gee...  That sounds like an awfully accurate description of a great many
taxonomists, systematists and nomenclaturists.  You know - the sort that
are always right, even if they are not...  :-)
-- jim
    
    
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