BSC

[Curtis Clark]

I think of the BSC as the "Bogus Species Concept"; there is a certain
elegance to the basic idea, but in practice the failure to realize that the
ability to interbreed does not correlate with gene flow renders the concept
untenable even with vertebrates, much less with plants and a whole lot of
other "ill-behaved" organisms.

One might say that the concept is "speciose". :-)


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