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    The Biological Species Concept (BSC) defines species membership in terms of relational properties, not intrinsic microstructural ones.

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    • According to the BSC, membership of a species depends on relational properties such as membership of a certain population and interbreeding.
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    • 1.Phylogenetic species concepts define species membership via intrinsic genealogical history, not reproductive relations.
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    • 2.Cracraft and others show organisms in asexual lineages belong to species without any interbreeding relation.
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    • 3.Therefore, interbreeding is neither necessary nor sufficient for species membership, undermining the BSC's relational account.
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    • 1.Homeostatic property cluster theorists like Boyd argue species are unified by shared intrinsic causal mechanisms, not relations.
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    • 2.The HPC account grounds species membership in clustered intrinsic biological properties that causally sustain each other.
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    • 3.Relational properties like interbreeding are merely symptoms of deeper intrinsic microstructural homeostatic mechanisms.
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    Kripke (1971, 1972) and Putnam (1975a) use animal kinds as examples of natural kinds for which a posteriori essences can be found. There is some implication that these essences are microstructural, intrinsic properties, which will be, of necessity, individually necessary and jointly sufficient for an entity to be a member of a kind. However, if species are individuals, then it is not true that species may be individuated on the basis of the intrinsic properties of their members. The various spec
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