How does this model handle horizontal gene transfer? And what about asexually reproducing species? In those cases, the dividing lines between species are less sharply defined.
I’m less interested in what existing groups of things we call “species” and more interested in what the platonic ideal of a species is & how we can use it as an intuition pump. This is also why I restrict “species” in the blogpost to “macrofauna species”, which have less horizontal gene transfer & asexual reproduction.
How does this model handle horizontal gene transfer? And what about asexually reproducing species? In those cases, the dividing lines between species are less sharply defined.
I’m less interested in what existing groups of things we call “species” and more interested in what the platonic ideal of a species is & how we can use it as an intuition pump. This is also why I restrict “species” in the blogpost to “macrofauna species”, which have less horizontal gene transfer & asexual reproduction.