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Difficulty defining or identifying species

i see quite a few "citation needed" tags in this section. now, it may not be really much of a help, but this link (http://www.macroevolution.net) discusses all or most of these topics (though this is just a starting point, someone would still need to find the exact part of the text that could be used as reference).

the species concept seems to be a scientific artefact from the times when divine creation was the sole scientific theory with the most explanative power, and its survival must be partially explained by its deep embeddedness int common sense, eg: how to tell the dog from the hog.80.98.114.70 (talk) 23:40, 27 April 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Species or specimen?

"In the earliest works of science, a species was simply an individual organism that represented a group of similar or nearly identical organisms." I would call that a specimen.

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 the species concept seems to be a scientific artefact from the times when divine creation was the sole scientific theory with the most explanative power, and its survival must be partially explained by its deep embeddedness int common sense, eg: how to tell the dog from the hog.[[Special:Contributions/80.98.114.70|80.98.114.70]] ([[User talk:80.98.114.70|talk]]) 23:40, 27 April 2016 (UTC).
+== Species or specimen? ==
+"In the earliest works of science, a species was simply an individual organism that represented a group of similar or nearly identical organisms." I would call that a specimen.
+saved at about 1:00, aug 11, 2016