Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!bionet!irlearn.bitnet!LYNCH89 From: LYNCH89@irlearn.bitnet (John Lynch) Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: reply to Sam Scheiner on: defining the subject Message-ID: <8905101510.AA25146@net.bio.net> Date: 10 May 89 14:46:53 GMT References: Sender: daemon@NET.BIO.NET Lines: 8 Sam's definition seems, to me at least, to be right on target. Everything studied in biology has to, at least at some point, refer to natural selections and evolution; as Dobzansky said 'nothing in biology makes sense without evolution'. Sam's definition, while not explicit about the subject matter covers the required ground, as it were by using a thick paintbrush rether than a thin one :) John