[Taxacom] Microspecies (was: GMOs and taxonomy)

[Kenneth Kinman]

Hi Dick,
      I am wondering what kind of suitable tests would you suggest for
apomictic "microspecies"?  I suspect that many splitters (especially
those who like a phylogenetic species concept) would call them separate
species, while many lumpers would not.
         -------Cheers,
                         Ken
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Richard Jensen wrote:
     That's why I view nomenclatural species as hypotheses - they should
represent some real entity in nature and we should be able to
demonstrate this by means of suitable tests of our ability to
consistently delimit them.