PROGRESS TOWARD A GENERAL SPECIES CONCEPT
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Progress toward a general species concept.
New insights in the speciation process and the nature of "species" that accumulated in the past decade demand adjustments of the species concept. The standing of some of the most broadly accepted or most innovative species concepts in the light of the growing evidence that reproductive barriers are semipermeable to gene flow, that species can differentiate despite ongoing interbreeding, that a ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Evolution
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0014-3820
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01231.x