now the moral question: is that good or bad for the plant in question? (or for us humans, too, for that matter! And the pekingnese... and chinese hairless...)
:) M ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: [OGD] Re: Definition of a Species > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
