In reassessing the biological species concept (BSC), the central disagreement is whether the concept of species should be linked to the process of species formation. Here, we argue that species should be, and can only be, defined in the context of the process of speciation. By evaluating BSC this way, we find the large body of genomic evidence on ‘speciation with gene flow’ does not constitute sufficient evidence to reject BSC. Whether and how BSC should be continually re-examined in light of the genomic evidence will be the crux of the debate on species and their origin.

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在重新评估生物物种概念 (BSC) 时，主要分歧在于物种概念是否应与物种形成过程联系起来。在这里，我们认为物种应该并且只能在物种形成过程的背景下被定义。通过以这种方式评估 BSC，我们发现大量关于“基因流物种形成”的基因组证据并不构成拒绝 BSC 的充分证据。是否以及如何根据基因组证据不断重新检查 BSC 将是关于物种及其起源争论的关键。