[Taxacom] Semantic Web: What is a species?

[Paul J. Morris]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:20:45 -0600
"Richard Zander" <Richard.Zander at mobot.org> wrote:
> I agree with Ken that species can be thought of as paraphyletic.

Likewise.  There are no bright line distinctions between populations,
subspecies, species, and higher taxa.  All are divisions imposed upon
an anastomosing web of gene flow.  

-Paul
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