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

[Dr. Neil Snow]

For those who want the appropriate citations, they are:

Brown, W. L., Jr., E. O. Wilson. 1954. The case against the trinomen. Syst.
Zool. 3: 174-176.

Wilson, E. O., W. L. Brown, Jr. 1953. The subspecies concept and its
taxonomic application. Syst. Zool. 2: 97-111.

NS

Frederick W. Schueler wrote:

> 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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