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Hays (1981) has called for testing of assumptions that folk biological classification systems are adaptive. If "uses" are to be interpreted as "behavioral responses" as Hays (1974;1981) suggests, then we must learn to recognize and understand these responses by developing a deeper understanding of the real-life contexts in which the responses occur. The following consideration of Huastec resource perception suggests the complexity pursuant to developing appropriate methods for evaluating the adaptive functions of ethnobiological knowledge and folk biological classification systems.

For example, some plants are identified with mestizo as opposed to Indian identity. Other plants/uses are identified with a particular role within Huastec society. ) Hemsl. (paka:b)] is associated with curers. Other considerations are economic. Allocation of time and space necessary for the maintenance, acquisition and/or use of the possible resource is considered within the context of the individual's present life strategy and against the value assigned free time. The known "opportunity costs" of opting for a "new" resource are evaluated against the probable gains.

Recent research has shown that groups in less intensively studied areas still rely on many medicinal plants unknown to outsiders. There are many drugs still to be discovered. Page 5 Similarly, humans throughout the millennia have used thousands of food plants, both wild and domesticated. Some of the wild plants may be useful worldwide in environmentally nondestructive ways. For example, there has been much effort to find markets for tropical rainforest resources that are renewable in order to stop or reduce the replacement of the forests with livestock pasturage and fields.

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