Dear all,
 
I am a species too, and what a species. And I don't have grandchildren,
even children. A full species is able to make grandchildren, but there
is no need as in human species. And a species has a lot to do with
nomenclature and the nomenclature with species. Sorry for the moment
I can't find the rules of nomenclature explaining what is a species.
On a ceertain place can be living two species but not two subspecies.
So you can see that species is more than a subspecies. Anybody
- also the most silly and slowest in the uptake (I don't know any
other word) could clearly see that Conus marmoreus and Conus
gloriamaris are two different species. So I'll close the discussiion
about species forever.
 
yours Helmut Nisters from Innsbruck.
 
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>
> It sounds great, Andy and Art! But...
>
> What about any Homo sapiens who does not (whether fertile or
> not) HAVE grandchildren? They can't be a member of the species
> because they did not achieve this criterion.
>
> There have been fertile couples who have had children but, due
> various reasons, had no grandchild born to their offspring. These
> people, also, would not be recognizable as Homo sapiens, having
> failed the "true" test of a species.
>
> Is there some way to modify this idea to make it more applicable?
> Maybe the test for Equus sp. won't work with us.
>
> Aloha,
>
> makuabob (a.k.a. Bob Dayle)
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