by Elio
The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, p 399. Source
What is a microbial – specifically bacterial – species? I am writing a paper on this and would like some crossbearings from a specialist.
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John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project University of Queensland. Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts "Darwin's theory has no more to do with philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Tractatus 4.1122
My comments: This should get a rise.
That is a very useful paper, thanks. But it seems to me this is more about diagnosis than a statement of what species are in this case - it implies they are clusters of genomes, which is what we already knew. Why and how much clustering?
Posted by: John Wilkins | March 03, 2007 at 07:13 AM