RE: Species [arbitrary to a degree]

["R. Irmis" <rbi@dana.ucc.nau.edu>]

<<I can imagine a day in the future when
paleontologists will scan fossil bones and form a kind
of digital genome from the remains of the animal, then
compare it with others. If you scanned modern animal
bones and found a correlation between a certain amount
of phenotypic change and BCS, then you would have the
morphological equivalent, which could be applied to
fossils. But then again, why not use the time
machine??? >>

Its already being done....Morphometrics!

Regards,
Randall Irmis