Concept Of Species
Beginning of paper
Over the last few decades the Biological Species Concept (BSC) has become
predominately the dominant species definition used. This concept defines a
species as a reproductive community.
This though has had much refinement through the years. The earliest
precursor to the concept is in Du Rietz (1930 ....
Middle of paper
.... reasons account for this .Firstly these are the groups that the
authors of the BSC worked with. (Mayr is an ornithologist & Dobzhansky has
worked mainly with Drosophila). More importantly Sexual reproduction is
the predominate form of reproduction in these groups. It is not
coincidental that the BSC is less widely used amongst botanists.
Terrestrial plants exhibit much more greater diversity in their mode of
reproduction than vertebrates and insects.
There has been many cr ....
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