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    It is not the case that Relations such as genealogy and interbreeding satisfy the membership requirement of essentialism.

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    • 1.Genealogical and interbreeding relations are historical and contingent, not necessary in the modal sense essentialism requires.
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    • 2.A tiger born via artificial parthenogenesis without interbreeding remains a tiger, showing interbreeding is not necessary for membership.
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    • 3.Essentialism demands intrinsic microstructural properties as essences, not extrinsic relational histories (Kripke, Hull 1965 critique).
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    • 1.Species boundaries are indeterminate at temporal and geographic margins, so no relation yields sharp necessary-and-sufficient membership conditions.
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    • 2.Mayr's biological species concept and Ghiselin's individual-organism thesis show species are spatiotemporally bounded individuals, not natural kinds with essences.
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    • 1.Certain relations are necessary and sufficient for membership in a species.
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    • 2.The membership requirement states that the essence of a kind provides the necessary and sufficient conditions for membership in that kind.
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