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Gene flow cohesion between races and species. F1 to F4 represent the four filial generations of couples of parents P. Gene flow is shown in the pathway of mutated alleles M1-M4. (Created with BioRender.com)
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In this paper, we address the question whether the persistence of biological species raises some difficulty for the thesis of the metaphysical equivalence between three-dimensionalism (3D) and four-dimensionalism (4D). We argue that even if one assumes that ‘species’ is a homonymous term that refers to two entities (evolverons or synchronic species...