[Taxacom] Binomial Nomenclature - was: "cataloguing hypotheses & not real things"

[Richard Pyle]

> * just looking at the situation with sexual reproduction and overlapping
or
> parapatric distributions: "Individuals with characteristics listed in the
diagnosis
> of species A are much more closely connected by interbreeding with other
> individuals with those characteristics than they are with individuals with
the
> characteristics of listed for other species."

Yes, agreed -- that's what I meant by how a clade can be a hypothesis.  But
nothing in the above statement asserts an hypothesis about whether "A" and
"the other species" should be regarded as two distinct species, or as a
single species with some degree of population structure.

Aloha,
Rich