A parallel thread about species, with my attempt to be provocative. https://bsky.app/profile/waynemaddison.bsky.social/post/3ldgww5vsnk2f
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Wayne Maddison
Oh, excellent questions. We were too polite. Rude volleys: 1-speciation biology felt it owned "species", but its concept didn't serve broadly; 2-taxonomy's methods were unguided by the concepts it cited; 3-philosophy largely addressed the wrong questions, not those pertinent to most biology;
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