What is the difference between the phylogenetic and biological species concepts? Give examples.
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The BSC (classically phrased by Ernst Mayr) defines a species as a group of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups. The key idea: ongoing gene flow unites members of a species; reproductive Show more…
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