OOPS! - we lost count...

[Barry Richardson]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:44:40 EST,
  Jim Croft writes:

>How many taxa are we dealing with here?
>


Dear Jim,

There is no answer.  In the animal field the number varies between 2 and 30
million.  The betting seems to be settling at 5-8 million.  The statistical
design of the attempts to measure it are deficient and the results equally
deficient.


Regards

Barry Richardson