Xref: utzoo sci.skeptic:4014 sci.bio:3172 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!manderse From: manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mark Andersen) Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,sci.bio Subject: Re: Question about Rupert Sheldrake Message-ID: <2687A6B9.26746@orion.oac.uci.edu> Date: 26 Jun 90 18:17:29 GMT References: <18066@ttidca.TTI.COM> <36514@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mark Andersen) Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 20 In article <36514@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes: >In article truesdel@sun418.nas.nasa.gov (David A. Truesdell) writes: >+jackson@ttidca.TTI.COM (Dick Jackson) writes: >+>Dogs are social animals too, but as someone said, they have been hopeless >His argument gets even weaker when you consider that many >taxonomists currently consider wolves and dogs to be the >same specie, and that wolves themselves have an incredible ^^^^^^ I've seen this mis-use a couple of times in the past couple of days. I'm not sure who the other perpetrator was. However, since this IS sci.bio after all, I feel obliged to remind non-biologists who read this group that "species" is BOTH singular AND plural. Thus, one should say "Wolves and dogs are thought to be the same species." Specie is money. >Greg Frazier frazier@CS.UCLA.EDU !{ucbvax,rutgers}!ucla-cs!frazier Mark Andersen manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92717