Dee Lusby wrote:
>I still claim this Peter and always will,...

Well, Dee, this is where we part company. In science, as in life, one
must be willing to drop everything one believes in the face of
incontrovertible evidence. To not do so is to live in a fantasy.

Back to subject of hair-splitting, a very interesting discussion on
the "Species problem" at Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem

with great references like:

Gregg JR. 1950. Taxonomy, language and reality. American Naturalist 84:419-435.

Burma BH. 1954. Reality, existence, and classification: A discussion
of the species problem.

Mayden RL. 1997. A hierarchy of species concepts: The denouement in
the saga of the species problem.

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