id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_wakcafoy2bho5dxxy25samvp2m Michael A. Patten Subspecies and the philosophy of science 2015 5 .pdf application/pdf 4178 317 56 Phylogenetic methods increasingly are brought to bear on questions of subspecies taxonomy, but several recent I propose an amendment to the phylogenetic species concept to include a subspecies category. Keywords: diagnosability, effect size, Polioptila californica, reciprocal monophyly, subspecies species and subspecies limits (Patten 2010, Tobias et al. whether 2 populations correspond to 2 subspecies (Patten subspecies ought to differ in the same way that (phylogenetic or other lineage-based) species would. be that a subspecies was viewed as ''lower than a species,'' every biological species must go through a subspecies As such, any genetic assessment of subspecies ought to focus on identification and subspecies classification for research and conservation biological species concept, a diagnosably distinct, geographically circumscribed segment not reproductively subspecies and not a species. phylogenetic species concept, a (morphologically) diagnosably distinct, geographically circumscribed clade that Taxonomic considerations in listing subspecies under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Conservation Biology 20:1584–1594. subspecies: A case of genetic but not morphological ./cache/work_wakcafoy2bho5dxxy25samvp2m.pdf ./txt/work_wakcafoy2bho5dxxy25samvp2m.txt