In a message dated 10/5/04 4:22:37 AM, Greig Russell writes: > My major problem arises because I cannot see that many of the plants that > we grow and call "species" could be placed back into their "natural habitat" > and still function; and if they cannot do that, then they are not part of a > species. > And if you couldn't put a purebred Pekingese back into the wild and have it function, does that make it not a member of Canis familiaris? The whole point of reality TV, like "Survival," is that most of us effetely line-bred humans could not function very well in the wild. I don't know about you, but last time I looked, I was still a card-carrying member of Homo sapiens sapiens, regardless of my "natural habitat" survival skills. The same is true of plants. Iris
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