On the relativity of species, or the probabilistic solution to the species problem

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F22%3A73608907" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/22:73608907 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mec.16218" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mec.16218</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16218" target="_blank" >10.1111/mec.16218</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

On the relativity of species, or the probabilistic solution to the species problem

Original language description

For centuries, both scientists and philosophers have discussed the nature of species resulting in c. 35 species concepts proposed to date. However, in our opinion, none of them incorporated neither recent advances in evolutionary genomics nor dimen- sionality of species in befitting depth. Our attempt to do so resulted in the following conclusions. Due to the continuous nature of evolution (regardless of its rate and constancy), species are inevitably undefinable as natural discontinuous units (except those originating in saltatory speciation) whenever the time dimension is taken into consideration. Therefore, the very existence of species as a natural discontinuous en- tity is relative to its dimensionality. A direct consequence of the relativity of species is the duality of speciators (e.g., incipient species) meaning that, in a given time, they may be perceived as both being and not being a species. Finally, the most accurate way to reflect both the relativity of species and the duality of speciators in species delimitation is probabilistic. While the novelty of these ideas may be questionable, they still deserve more extensive attention from the biological community. Here, we hope to draw such attention by outlining one of the possible pathways towards a new kind of probabilistic species delimitation methods based on the probability of irrevers- ible divergence of evolutionary lineages. We anticipate that our probabilistic view of speciation has the potential to facilitate some of the most serious and universal issues of current taxonomy and to ensure unity of the species-level taxonomy across the tree of life.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ19-12994Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-12994Y: Unraveling genomic and geographical diversification during speciation in cyanobacteria</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

ISSN

0962-1083

e-ISSN

1365-294X

Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

411-418

UT code for WoS article

000708308900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85123389848