Splits, lumps, taxonomies, check-lists, whatever.

[Dave Torr <>]

Indeed - after all if a species always bred "true" - ie the offspring were
exactly the same species as their parents - we would never get any
evolution going on. So all children will be very slightly different from
their parents and over time this may or may not lead to new "species"
evolving - but the precise moment when this happens would be just about
impossible to pin point!

On 4 January 2013 11:08, Philip Veerman <> wrote:

> Maybe. to quote from "The Castle": Tell them they're dreaming.
>
> Ultimately I think it is not possible, as species evolve into other species
> or split. We are just at a point in time. This predicts that there will be
> transitions right now.
>
> Philip
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Robert
> Inglis
> Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2013 8:43 PM
> To: Birding-Aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Splits, lumps, taxonomies, check-lists, whatever.
>
>
> From all this passionate discussion on taxonomies I am assuming that
> someone
> (or some committee) has finally come up with a viable, scientifically based
> and universally accepted definition of "a species".
>
> Would someone be so kind as to tell me what that definition is.
>
> Bob Inglis
> Sandstone Point
> Qld
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