VERTICAL WORLD. “Thus, all of the lineage-based species concepts applied to multi-cellular eukaryotes satisfy all of the biodiversity constraints noted above, viz., they are all completely anchored in the idea of shared evolutionary history and fate and they all, in consequence, deliver species groups whose members exhibit great similarity of phenotype and ecological role.”
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