Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA29876 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:56:54 GMT To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Taxonomy and speciation X-Remote_Addr: 216.175.83.10 Message-Id: <E16611J-000E78-00@oceanus.uk.clara.net> From: Douglas Brooker <dbrooker@clara.co.uk> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:52:21 +0000 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Perhaps not completely on topic, but there was an interesting op-ed in
the New York Times about 7 years ago on hermaphrodites.
The author stated that approximately 3% of babies are born with
significant enough characteristics of each sex to be considered
hermaphrodites. The last available American statistics, cited by the
author were from the 30's.
Since the war doctors have routinely made the sex of the infant either
male or female.
I'd agree - this should be self-evident; I guess the above story is
just meant to say it can be much more than descriptive classification.
D
>
> In short, I contend that speciation occurs nowhere in nature but in
our heads
> and actually is an artifact of a somewhat misplaced application
> of our deeply ingrained tradition of taxonomy to organize the
presumed
> non-evolving realm of organisms.
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