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

Frederick W. Schueler bckcdb at istar.ca
Tue Nov 28 11:07:35 CST 2017


On 11/28/2017 12:32 AM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
>  nobody is trying to force taxonomists to adopt any particular "definition" of "species", but rather that conservation (and possibly other) "decision makers" should all follow a standard definition. Personally, I don't care what definition of species such "decision makers" use, so I don't see this as a big deal, and I don't see that it will have any impact on taxonomy, just on conservation, etc.

* this is a "right-wing" "personal liberty" website/group (I read 
through a lot of the site), and the kinky thing about this post is that 
they say that they consider that '“species” or “subspecies”... are terms 
of convenience, deriving their value from larger conservation policy.'

This is curiously opposite from the recent kerfuffle about the article 
in Nature, because it supposes that taxonomy is a tool of conservation 
interests, rather than that taxonomy is an impediment to conservation.

fred.
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