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    Species are not natural kinds. — Carmelics
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    Species are not natural kinds.

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    • 1.Natural kinds require distinctive intrinsic natural properties common to all members.
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    • 2.No genetic material or gene sequence is shared by all and only members of any given species.
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    • 3.Larger-scale phenotypic properties cannot serve as the basis for species membership because evolutionary change may eliminate such features without a new species arising.
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    The second consequence implies that intrinsic similarity is not necessary for membership of the same species. There exists a high degree of variation in intraspecific morphology and genetic makeup. While members of kinds need not be intrinsically identical (e.g., there may be isotopic variation between samples of a chemical element), there will nonetheless be certain distinctive intrinsic natural properties common to all members of the kind (e.g., nuclear charge in the case of atoms of the same
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