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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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