What is a species?
"I have come to realise that there are different concepts of species afloat in biology that have their own utilities. I am an agnostic pluralist about this: there are different concepts of species for different endeavours.
There does not seem to be one concept of species that meets everybody' s needs very well, and so I am inclined to think we are better just leaving the term quite loose and not making a big deal of it."
Daniel Dennett
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