Re: Defending grades (Was: Re: Archaeopteryx (rant))

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/21/03 8:51:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, torf-o@online.no 
writes:

<< About chronospecies I certainly agree that all boundaries are artificial. 
>>

They need not be. All we need to do is recognize the appearance of an 
evolutionary novelty (a change in a character's state, or the appearance of a 
new 
character, for example). When one appears, it is valid to assert that a species 
has changed into another.