Use of the rank of forma

[Barry Roth]

Or, more generally, to give names to units that are
not conceived as monophyletic.  At least with the hope
that such names will designate entities about which
one can make the same kinds of predictions that
monophyletic units allow one to make -- e.g., that all
of its members will share other, known or
undiscovered, characters.

Barry Roth

--- Thomas Lammers <lammers at VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU> wrote:
> At 05:16 PM 10/2/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>[...] A real example:
>
> I think the conceptual problems folks are
> experiencing with this area
> highlights just how silly it is to give names to
> individual variants that
> do not have a discrete geographical or ecological
> range, i.e., that occur
> sporadically within populations.

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