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

["Robert Inglis" <>]

I'm glad it was you, Laurie, who said that and not me.

To all of those people who have responded to my question and to those others 
who may be interested but who have wisely chosen to be silent I can say I 
will follow up my original posting. However, I am spending time reading 
those responses and trying hard to create a form of words which is as 
uncontroversial as possible. Could be difficult.
Also, the tennis on the TV is playing havoc with my daily routine. Which 
could mean that I, poor misguided soul, may subconsciously believe that 
there are more important things in life than understanding how creatures 
become 'species'.
A clue to what will be in my next posting on this topic is that I think I 
asked the wrong question. It is so hard to ask the right question when one 
doesn't really have a clue about the subject. What was that saying 
.........."as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we 
know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there 
are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the 
ones we don't know we don't know"...............needs a bit of work, I 
think.
(Incidentally, my spell checker didn't know "knowns" but it did know 
"unknowns".)
Bob Inglis
Sandstone Point
Qld
http://www.photos-n-guides.com/



-----Original Message----- 
From: Laurie Knight
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 8:02 AM
To: Robert Inglis
Cc: Birding-Aus
Subject: Splits, lumps, taxonomies, check-lists, whatever.

A "species" is something you "tick"

:)

LK

On 03/01/2013, at 7:42 PM, Robert Inglis wrote:

> 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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