WAS A Leper?

[Tiser, Gene M]

Ron -
I think you missed one other significant aspect/justification of sub-species
documentation.  That is, surviving subspecies of today will at some point
become tomorrow's species.  If today's subspecies are not noted or tracked,
the future lepidopterans will lament the loss of evolutionary data and
insights that could have been gained had these creatures been carefully
documented and studied.  Can you imagine having data that tracks a
sub-species through the time it becomes a full fledged species?

Gene Tiser
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> From: 	Ron Gatrelle[SMTP:gatrelle at tils-ttr.org]
> Reply To: 	Ron Gatrelle
> Sent: 	Friday, July 13, 2001 1:07 PM
> To: 	Leps-l
> Subject: 	Re: WAS A Leper?
> 
> 
> M.B. Prondzinski wrote
> 
> 
> > It should be "Odors" as in "Odo"nates (!)  Let's use the correct
> > olfactory term...
> >
> > See, we're still arguing about "correct" versus scientific, versus
> > common, versus nicknames, versus....  Arrgh!!!!
> >
> > I give up...
> 
> 
> As humans we all do a very interesting thing. We ask and want to know. For
> those with a bit keener curiosity, they want to know in more specifics -
> or
> accurately. Correct has several connotations depending on the theme. Here
> correct is synonymous with accurate.  This Leper or Lepper or Odors or
> Oders thread is a spontaneous test, that without giving thought to it in
> advance, in hindsight reveals - by the number who jumped on it and their
> various inputs to it - not only the instinctive curiosity and creativity
> of
> man - but his drive for accuracy. So, arrgh!!! ?  NO. hurrah! We _can_
> still reason after all. Don't give up (in).
> 
> Someday, unfortunately far off, yet surely to occur, there will arise a
> keener generation that via latent (but intrinsic) curiosity will have
> freed
> themselves from the dumbded down butterflying of today and once again
> discovered the science of lepidopterology.  This future generation will
> have a lament though. It will be due to the number of subspecies (which
> evolutionally, is what all lepidopteran organic units are) that needlessly
> went extinct simply because those who saw them did not behold them. They
> saw without noticing, reported without knowing, cared without helping. If
> this generation could be brought back in the future to realize the damage
> they did by their inattention to taxonomic detail - they would simply say
> that they were sorry but they just didn't know. To which the future
> lepidopterists' response would be two pronged - That is because you were
> not told (by today's field guides) but also because you did not ask (the
> refusal to seek depth).
> 
> Not only can we not report that which we do not know, we can not protect
> it
> either.
> Ron
> 
> Post Script.  "When I was a child I spoke, understood, and thought as a
> child. But when I became an adult I put away childish things."  I
> Corinthians 13:11  There is a lot of money to be made in children's books
> though.
> 
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