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Dictionary definition: phylogenetic species concept
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- A Dictionary of Biology
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phylogenetic species concept (
PSC
)
The concept of a species as an irreducible group whose members are descended from a common ancestor and who all possess a combination of certain defining, or derived, traits (see
apomorphy
). Hence, this concept defines a species as a group having a shared and unique evolutionary history. It is less restrictive than the
biological species concept
, in ...