[Taxacom] Are species real? Doesn't matter.

[Neal Evenhuis]

At 12:58 PM -0600 6/1/07, Robin Leech wrote:
>I used to throw my biology students into big arguments when
>I said: "I am male.  See that guy over there?  He, too, is male.
>We are reproductively isolated.  Does that make us different
>species?  Tell me why, yes or no."

Well .... the misogynist and certified schizophrenic entomologist 
A.A. Girault did describe Homo perniciosus in 1924 (based on the 
female sex only) for what we term today "the business woman"....

Neal