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The article was published on 1963-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7870 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Species problem.read more
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A Critique of the Biological Species Concept and Recommendations for a Phylogenetic Alternative
TL;DR: The biological concept fails to provide unambiguous criteria for grouping organisms (or for assigning species rank), and as a consequence, biological species may not be monophyletic.
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Criteria used in assessing wildlife conservation potential: A review
C. R. Margules,Michael B. Usher +1 more
TL;DR: The criteria which have been used for the assessment of wildlife conservation values during the last decade are reviewed in this article, and problems of definition, measurement and application are discussed, as well as problems of defining, measuring and applying these criteria are discussed.
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Conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of a recent species radiation: What mtDNA reveals and conceals about modes of speciation in Hawaiian crickets
TL;DR: The nDNA phylogeny corroborates the hypothesis of allopatric divergence and multiple invasions, and when compared with mtDNA patterns, suggests that interspecific hybridization is a persistent feature of the history of Laupala.
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The evolution, maintenance and adaptive function of genetic colour polymorphism in birds.
TL;DR: A review of the current theoretical and empirical knowledge of the evolution, maintenance and adaptive function of colour plumage traits for which the expression is mainly under genetic control shows that genetically inherited morphs can reveal the same qualities.
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The evolution of postzygotic isolation: accumulating dobzhansky-muller incompatibilities
H. Allen Orr,Michael Turelli +1 more
TL;DR: The distribution of the number of incompatibilities as a function of divergence time between allopatric taxa as well as the distribution of waiting times to speciation by postzygotic isolation are derived.