The species problem is about differences between species in nature. Different animals, plants, and other living things can look and act differently, depending on where they live, what they eat, and how they interact with their environment. Scientists want to know more about these differences, and they study living things to figure out how they are different from each other. The species problem is trying to find out what makes one species different from another, so that scientists can better understand how certain species and populations change over time.