A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by @JeannettWhitton and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC).

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Here's a rant against unbalanced parentheses:

A confession about our paper on species concepts (w/@JeannettWhitton). BullSocSysBio requires figure parts to be marked a), b), etc., but I detest unbalanced parens, so I placed the letters on a disk whose shadowed edge could be interpreted as a parenthesis — but isn't 😜.

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The sections that most directly refer to traditional taxonomy are 2.1, 4.8 and 8.2. If the paper's length daunts you, we suggest you might want to focus on the following sections: 1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.6, 4.8, 5, 8.2.

Our concept therefore guides the practice of morphological taxonomy much as does the phylogenetic species concept, seeking units with a coherent history based on multiple traits with some attention to synapomorphy. Approximation is OK. Rank is your choice.