id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_vjldpjbioffipkmd252tbihxfy Stijn Conix Integrative taxonomy and the operationalization of evolutionary independence 2018 17 .pdf application/pdf 9533 656 42 The central notion of this conception, evolutionary independence, is commonly operationalized by taxonomists in multiple, diverging ways. argue that species delimitation can be considered objective and reliable if we understand the sophisticated integrative approach as assessing the coherence between the idealized models of multiple operationalizations of evolutionary independence. when knowledge on the differences between various operationalizations can be implemented in species delimitation (Degnan and Rosenberg 2009; Haber 2016). to solve the POD by adopting a novel approach to species delimitation called 'integrative taxonomy', which uses multiple operationalizations of evolutionary independence for species delimitation (Dayrat 2005; Padial et al. integration of multiple fallible operationalizations, some of which are explicitly assumed to be erroneous, can increase the objectivity and reliability of species delimitation. delimitation to show that sophisticated integrative species delimitation, like measurement, is objective and reliable in a substantial sense. relies on convergence between multiple operationalizations for reliable species delimitation while avoiding the standard approach's problem of false negatives. ./cache/work_vjldpjbioffipkmd252tbihxfy.pdf ./txt/work_vjldpjbioffipkmd252tbihxfy.txt