Speciation through the looking‐glass

摘要: We respond to a comment by Allmon WD (2016), who attempted demonstrate that species are biologically ‘real’ as justification for retaining the terms ‘anagenesis’ and ‘cladogenesis’, which we argue not necessary study of evolutionary biology (Vaux F, Trewick SA & Morgan-Richards M, 2016). Here, summarize wealth literature demonstrating supposedly separate introgress frequently, clarify lineage-splitting with genotypic phenotypic divergence (speciation) is same taxonomic classification. The usefulness anagenesis cladogenesis requires agreement on their meaning, this debate reflects wider dilemma in academic communication: whether use imprecisely defined jargon or longer sentences simple words. favour latter, because biological evolution operates under straightforward generalizable principles should require complicated descriptions, especially when its collaboration among many disciplines.