Re: Line breeding vs hybridization
- Subject: Re: Line breeding vs hybridization
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:37:00 -0500 (CDT)
In a message dated Tue, 26 Jun 2001 5:02:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Wilbert Hetterscheid" <hetter@worldonline.nl> writes:
<< Species unknown in nature should be treated differently by taxonomy.>>
If leafcutter ants were the taxonomists, they could say that their fungus crop is unknown in nature -- that is, if they defined nature so as to exclude themselves, as we humans generally (and artificially) do.