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    Being an organism that belongs to the species Homo sapien... — Carmelics
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    Being an organism that belongs to the species Homo sapiens is a matter of being connected reproductively to organisms situated on the relevant lineage segment.

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    • 1.The conditions for belonging to a species are relational, not intrinsic.
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    • 2.Lineage-based individuation of a taxon depends on component organisms being spatially and temporally situated such that causal processes necessary for trait inheritance can take place.
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    • 3.In the human case, the key causal processes are those of sexual reproduction.
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    • 1.Species membership can be determined by intrinsic genomic constitution, as evidenced by cases where reproductive isolation precedes speciation events.
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    • 2.An organism produced by cloning or parthenogenesis belongs to Homo sapiens without satisfying the sexual reproductive lineage condition the argument requires.
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    • 3.Hull's own lineage theory entails that the relevant causal continuity is genealogical descent, not specifically sexual reproduction, making the sexual reproduction premise unnecessarily restrictive.
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    • 1.Essentialism about biological kinds, defended by Devitt, holds that species membership is grounded in shared intrinsic microstructural properties, not relational reproductive history.
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    • 2.If species membership were purely relational and reproductive, then sterile individuals—who lack reproductive connectivity—would face paradoxical exclusion from their own species.
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    This leaves only the possibility that the conditions for belonging to the species are, like the individuating conditions for the species taxon, relational. Lineage-based individuation of a taxon depends on its component organisms being spatially and temporally situated in such a way that the causal processes necessary for the inheritance of traits can take place. In the human case, the key processes are those of sexual reproduction. Therefore, being an organism that belongs to the species Homo s
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