The concept of species is one of the core concepts in biology and one of the cornerstones of evolutionary biology, yet it is rife with conceptual problems. Philosophers of biology have been discussing the concept of species for decades, and in doing so they sometimes appeal to the views of biologists. However, their statements as to what biologists think are seldom supported by empirical data. In order to investigate what biologists actually think about the key issues related to the problem of species, we have conducted a survey on the sample of 193 biologists from the population of biologists from over 150 biology departments at universities in the US and the EU. This article presents and discusses the results of the survey. Some results confirm and others falsify the reiterated statements of philosophers of biology as to what biologists think, but all results we obtained should be informative and relevant for future discussions of the problem of species.

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生物学家如何看待物种问题？

物种的概念是生物学的核心概念之一，也是进化生物学的基石之一，但它却充斥着概念问题。几十年来，生物学哲学家一直在讨论物种的概念，在这样做时，他们有时会诉诸生物学家的观点。然而，他们关于生物学家认为什么的陈述很少得到经验数据的支持。为了调查生物学家对物种问题相关关键问题的实际看法，我们对来自美国和欧盟大学150多个生物学系的生物学家群体中的193名生物学家进行了抽样调查。本文介绍并讨论了调查结果。一些结果证实了，而另一些结果则证伪了生物学哲学家对生物学家所思所想的反复陈述，