Name Changes in Massonia
J.E. Shields (Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:30:15 PST)

Hi Jim,

DNA has not just added quantitatively to the body of morphological data of
some use in distinguishing one species from another. It is rather in the
process of changing what we mean by "species." It may be that traditional
taxonomists don't see this coming, but it really is. I've been watching
science change for as long as I can remember,and it is changing. It is
following a trajectory. We will one day very soon be defining a species by
its DNA, and the old definitions of "species" -- all of them, and several
were really never very good anyway and all of them had problems -- will be
lost sight of as science focuses on the molecular.

I don't expect many here to agree with me. Just wait -- you'll see.

Jim Shields

At 06:03 PM 1/17/2013 -0800, Jim McK. wrote:

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