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The Species Problem

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MAY I add a few words as a contribution to the species concept discussion which was touched upon in a recent article1 in NATURE ? The ideal species definition has not yet been given, and probably never will be given, the problem being of too complex a nature to be condensed into a single definition.

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  1. NATURE, 136, 574, Oct. 12, 1935.

  2. Bergens Museums Arbok 1931. Natv. r. Nr. 4.

  3. Mem. Soc. Faun. and Flor. Fenn. 1933–34, 59; 1935.

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FÆGRI, K. The Species Problem. Nature 136, 954–955 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136954b0

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