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Species play a central role in evolutionary biology. They are generally the locus of most discussions of taxonomic and structural diversity. Species are said to be the active participants in a host of postulated processes. Thus, species speciate, go extinct, compete, interact, disperse, predate, or are selected.
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Cracraft, J. (1989). Species as Entities of Biological Theory. In: Ruse, M. (eds) What the Philosophy of Biology Is. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1169-7_3
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