AN AMPLIFICATION OF THE PHYLOGENETIC SPECIES CONCEPT

@article{Nixon1990ANAO,
  title={AN AMPLIFICATION OF THE PHYLOGENETIC SPECIES CONCEPT},
  author={Kevin C Nixon and Quentin Wheeler},
  journal={Cladistics},
  year={1990},
  volume={6}
}
Abstract— The goal of a phylogenetic species concept is to reveal the smallest units that are analysable by cladistic methods and interpretable as the result of phylogenctic history. We define species as the smallest aggregation of populations (sexual) or lineagcs (asexual) diagnosable by a unique combination of character states in comparable individuals (semaphoronts). A character state is an inherited attribute distributed among all comparable individuals (semaphoronts) of the same historical… 
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