Jan 11, 2013



Dyckia encholirioides in its habitat

Look, an almost totally glabra (without spines) individual amid "normal" looking ones.
Dyckias in nature are not just like an army of individuals with the very same looks!
No way! Rare are the Dyckia populations that are so and when we see one it is a very restricted one  or we have not "eyes to see", we do not observe it correctly or long enough.
Every "healthy" population no matter vegetal or animal faces the world and the future with a vast smorgasbord of different individual characteristics and look too. 
This is the way nature faces the environmental changes and defy its challenges.
This is nature and nature is so! 
All and every perfect species with all its members exactly the very same in every aspect is condemned to extinction. 
Perfection in nature does not exist and if existed it was vanished long ago.

Look at ourselves!!!!

"Science" uses to describe one individual amid normally plenty of them and this one is taken as standard.
Where do we see a description of a Dyckia species where several looks are described?
This would be taken as a mortal sin to most of the "experts".
Most of the Dyckias descriptions were made on one or a very very few individual normally not collected by the describer and the population barely observed and not followed.
Humans seem to crave for standards!
So any individual not exactly so according to the description is not that anymore....
This is not so! Definitely not so! Scholars must attempt for that.
Maybe DNA is the key to clear the endless night on Dyckias!

One day this night shall dawn and Light will win.
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) last words:
Light, more light.....
Licht, mehr Licht....


 

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