Exist sub-species????? (A modest proposal)

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Kenelm Philip wrote:
>
> I work with butterflies--a group in which subspecies have run
> amok. In the arctic (my region of interest) there is a general rule:
> the boundaries between described subspecies always fall in uncollected
> areas.

* This is Brown's Rule, developed when Bill Brown and E.O. Wilson were
first critiquig the subspecies concept in the early 1950's.

fred schueler
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