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Re: Line breeding vs hybridization

From: "Jay Vannini" interbnk at terra.com.gt> on 2001.06.29 at 06:39:01(6917)
Bravo!!
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To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L"
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: Line breeding vs hybridization
+More
> In a message dated Tue, 26 Jun 2001 5:02:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
"Wilbert Hetterscheid" writes:
>
> << Species unknown in nature should be treated differently by taxonomy.>>
>
> If leafcutter ants were the taxonomists, they could say that their fungus
crop is unknown in nature -- that is, if they defined nature so as to
exclude themselves, as we humans generally (and artificially) do.

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