The Species Problem article

Question 1

What is the Species Problem?

Answer 1

questions that evolutionary biologist think about when speciating organisms. How do you know when to call on species a different one compared to another?

Question 2

What is the nature of the problem?

Answer 2

Asexually reproducing organisms are quite different from sexually reproducing organisms. but can all species in sexually reproducing organisms be the same kind?

Question 3

What is the complications between Species concept and species taxa?

Answer 3

These two phenomena are completely two different things. It becomes a problem when an author cofounds the two of them together.

Question 4

Why doesnt typological species concept work?

Answer 4

It fails to answer Darwin’s question of “why?”. There is nothing about the reasons of discrete reproductively isolated species in nature. There is nothing about the biological significance of species.

Question 5

What is the BSC?

Answer 5

The biological species concept

Question 6

What does it mean to be a species?

Answer 6

A population or group of populations is a species according to BSC if it form a reproductive community and does not reproduce with other such communities.

Question 7

Why is BSC still attacked?

Answer 7

Misunderstanding of scientists about the difference between the species concept and the species taxon.

Question 8

Why isnt the ecological species concept workable?

Answer 8

• Because they differ in their niche occupations.
• An ecological species definition would require that these populations would be called a different species but they are not.
• Two sympatric species seem to occupy the same niche, in conflict with Gause’s rule.