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[Bill Shear]

>The problems of both sexually reproducing  and asexually reproducing
>species are best addressed by "Evolutionary species concept" which describes
>species as "single lineage of ancestor-descendent populations which
>maintains its identity from other such lineages and which has its own
>evolutionary tendencies  and biological fate".

Is anyone else uncomfortable with "evolutionary tendencies" and "biological
fate?"  When stuff like this can be part of a supposedly scientific
concept, I wonder where the Science Police that are usually so quick to
jump on this list might be.

Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills at hsc.edu>