new, probably brief subject

[Jim Taylor]

I think it's a feller named Poss. Every time he posts my gadget tries to
download a Japanese character set.
Jim Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart Fullerton <stuartf at PEGASUS.CC.UCF.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: new, probably brief subject


> must be a different stuart, tain't i in florida.
>
> cheers!  rof
>
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Doug Yanega wrote:
>
> > Stuart wrote (and, incidentally, Stuart, do you think you could toggle
your
> > HTML function to "off"? Thanks):
> >
> > >Is this assertion generally agreed upon  by those who advocate the
> > >Phylogenetic Species Concept?
> > >
> > >As we all know from a host of celebrated crimes, it is not only
possible to
> > >distinguish subspecific variability, but also variability among
virtually all
> > >individuals as well.  Are all individuals, except perhaps identical
twins, to
> > >be regarded as different species simply because they are genetically
> > >distinguishable?
> >
> > It was stated clearly in the seminal paper on the PSC that if there is
so
> > much as ONE character shared by all members of population X that is not
> > possessed by any members of population Y, then X and Y are separate
> > terminal taxa (species). Obviously, that one defining character can be a
> > single base pair. I don't know of any species yet defined on that small
a
> > foundation, but how the PSC interprets such a case is quite unambiguous,
> > since base pairs *are* characters.
> >
> > Peace,
> >
> >
> > Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research
Museum
> > Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
> > phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not
UCR's)
> >                 http://insects.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
> >   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
> >         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82
> >
>
> Stuart M Fullerton ROF, Research Associate in charge of Arthropod
> Collections (UCFC), Biology Dept. University of Central Florida, Orlando,
> Florida, 32816, USA. stuartf at pegasus.cc.ucf.edu