Quotes by Loren Rieseberg

“These discussions should have been settled earlier, but no one bothered to summarize the relevant literature, perhaps because it is so vast.”

“After going through all this literature, we realized someone just needed to compile and analyze it all.”

“The species concept debate has devolved from an empirical discussion into a philosophical one. But this is fundamentally an empirical question. These data support the notion that species can be both units of evolution and products of evolution.”