Re: [DIYbio] What a 'species' means today... was: Fish gDNA isolation

Who is this "we"? Can't recall signing up for something like that.

When I wrote specialists I meant specialists in the field of that order or genera study. Classify it if you study it. You have to have some consensus.

Wikipedia is as social as it gets. It's democratization of knowledge. If you don't know diddly-squat about squat, you turn to Wikipedia and suddenly you're pro.

You have to keep asking yourself "what deserves species classification?" To each his/her own.
-Trying to define species of clam shrimp is a head to vice deal. They have gender & breeding strategy disagreements between genera.
-Grasshopper to Locust transition; do either one deserve a distinct species name? And can interbreeding occur there? Or is there a lockout? (Don't drag these out into the forum)
-On rare occasion some plant species will freely blend disregarding their morphologies and geographic localization. Most multi generation hybrids, again in plants, go sterile the more you try to hybridize them. Not an issue with transgenes.

Again, philosophical.

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