BSC

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Doug Yanega wrote:
>
> Bill Shear wrote:
>
> >Is anyone else uncomfortable w "evolutionary tendencies" & "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.
>
>  the species concept championed by Ed Wiley was something along
> the lines of "distinct evolutionary trajectories"
>  and I know many folks gave him grief over that one. He stuck to his
>  guns on it, feeling that a somewhat ambiguous concept could
> certainly stand to have an appropriately ambiguous definition.

* but it was the ambiguity of 'interbreeding' that was supposed to be
the downfall of the BSC, eh?

fred.
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