 Another recent response to species pluralism is found in the work of Doolittle (2019) and Novak and Doolittle (2021). They don’t deny the pluralism in species pluralism, but they deny the species in species pluralism. That is, they agree with pluralists that there are different processes that cause the existence of basal taxa (what we usually call ‘species’). Nevertheless, they think that the general concept of species does significant work in biology and should not be rejected. The importance of the general concept of species, they argue, is to organize the study of those evolutionary processes that cause basal taxa.