[Taxacom] OK Taxacomers, you have had your chance, now it's the lawyers turn.

[Donat Agosti]

To be able to find, cite here the doi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1067325 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1067325 of the article archive at BLR

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Lawyers decide the definition of 'species'.

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Today, PLF and several allied organizations submitted a petition for rule-making<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpacificlegal.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F11%2FESA-Taxonomy-Rulemaking-Petition.pdf&data=01%7C01%7Cagosti%40amnh.org%7C91e0a32c19a4481e38d208d535e7a9d1%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0&sdata=aIOjzCJXtjQDc%2FlGygLcJCAEfYo2qTcY5NVcq5cowFk%3D&reserved=0> to the [U.S.] federal agencies that administer the Endangered Species Act.

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Our petition seeks an end to the arbitrariness [of what a species is] through the setting of clear, scientifically defensible and politically sensible definitions for the statutory terms "species" and "subspecies." The petition recommends that, for the former, the longstanding and well-regarded biological species concept be adopted, according to which a species is delimited by reproductive isolation. For the latter, the petition asks for the adoption of a variant of the equally longstanding "75% rule," pursuant to which individuals within a species must be diagnosed accurately at least 75% of the time as belonging to putative Subspecies A or B or C, etc., using genetic or other biologically significant characters.


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