Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!bionet!buclln11.bitnet!LEBOUL From: LEBOUL@buclln11.bitnet (Eric Le Boulenge) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Defining the subject Message-ID: <8905100843.AA16942@net.bio.net> Date: 10 May 89 07:52:40 GMT References: Sender: daemon@NET.BIO.NET Lines: 14 Fourteen words.... The differences between the 13-words definition of population biology given by Sam and the 27-words one "thrown through" the list on Tuesday 18th April, are the second branch of the field (population ECOLOGY) and the main trunc (SYNTHESIS); Sam's definition only retains one branch (population GENETICS) and a twig of the other (natural selection), i.e. it retains only evolutionary processes. Sam, you threw the first missile! I hope this will turn into a fiery intercontinental struggle (but friendly and intellectual... as long as we just throw E-mail at each other, it will be fun!). Thank you for the initiative, Eric.