Are Species Real
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Are Species Real
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Author : Matthew H. Slater
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Are Species Real written by Matthew H. Slater and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Science categories.
What are species? Are they objective features of the world? If so, what sort of features are they? Slater presents a novel approach to these questions, aiming to accommodating the attractions to both realism and antirealism about species.
Genes Categories And Species
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Author : Jody Hey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-07-19
Genes Categories And Species written by Jody Hey and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-19 with Science categories.
In Genes, Categories and Species, Jody Hey provides an enlightening new solution to one of biology's most ironic and perplexing puzzles. When Darwin showed that life evolves, and that it does so by natural selection, he transformed our understanding of living things. But the very question Darwin addressed-the nature of species-continues to pose an awkward conundrum for biologists. Despite enormous efforts by a great many scholars, biologists still cannot agree on how to identify species or even how to define the word "species." Genes, Categories, and Species is not like other books on the species problem, for it does not begin by asking, "What is a species?" Instead, it focuses on the very fact that biologists are stumped by species and their curious behavior in coping with that uncertainty. Faced with a persistent conundrum-and no lack of data on the subject-biologists who ponder the species problem have ceased to ask the most essential of scientific questions: "What new information do we need to resolve the problem?" This is the question that motivates this book and leads to the discoveries it reveals. The answer to the species problem lies not with the processes and patterns of biological diversity, Hey contends, but rather in the way the human mind perceives and categorizes that diversity. The promise of this book is twofold. First, it allows biologists to understand the causes of the species problem and to use this knowledge to avoid the major confusions that arise over species. Second, with its explanation of the species problem, it gives scholars and students of human nature a humbling example of how ill-suited the human mind is for certain kinds of scientific questions.
Species
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Author : John S. Wilkins
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2009
Species written by John S. Wilkins and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Nature categories.
In this comprehensive work, John S. Wilkins traces the history of the idea of "species" from antiquity to today, providing a new perspective on the relationship between philosophical and biological approaches.--[book cover].
Concepts Of Species
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Author : C. N. Slobodchikoff
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 1976-01-01
Concepts Of Species written by C. N. Slobodchikoff and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with categories.
Are Species Real
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Author : M. Slater
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Are Species Real written by M. Slater and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Science categories.
What are species? Are they objective features of the world? If so, what sort of features are they? Slater presents a novel approach to these questions, aiming to accommodating the attractions to both realism and antirealism about species.
What Species Mean
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Author : Julia D. Sigwart
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-10-29
What Species Mean written by Julia D. Sigwart and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-29 with Nature categories.
Everyone uses species. All human cultures, whether using science or not, name species. Species are the basic units for science, from ecosystems to model organisms. Yet, there are communication gaps between the scientists who name species, called taxonomists or systematists, and those who use species names—everyone else. This book opens the "black box" of species names, to explain the tricks of the name-makers to the name-users. Species are real, and have macroevolutionary meaning, and it follows that systematists use a broadly macroevolution-oriented approach in describing diversity. But scientific names are used by all areas of science, including many fields such as ecology that focus on timescales more dominated by microevolutionary processes. This book explores why different groups of scientists understand and use the names given to species in very different ways, and the consequences for measuring and understanding biodiversity. Key selling features: Explains the modern, multi-disciplinary approach to studying species evolution and species discovery, and the role of species names in diverse fields throughout the life sciences Documents the importance and urgent need for high-quality taxonomic work to address today’s most pressing problems Summarises controversies in combining different—sometimes quite different—datasets used to estimate global biodiversity Focusses throughout on a central theme—the disconnect between the makers and the users of names—and seeks to create the rhetorical foundation needed to bridge this disconnect Anticipates the future of taxonomy and its role in studies of global biodiversity
The Species Problem
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Author : Richard A. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-01
The Species Problem written by Richard A. Richards and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Science categories.
There is long-standing disagreement among systematists about how to divide biodiversity into species. Over twenty different species concepts are used to group organisms, according to criteria as diverse as morphological or molecular similarity, interbreeding and genealogical relationships. This, combined with the implications of evolutionary biology, raises the worry that either there is no single kind of species, or that species are not real. This book surveys the history of thinking about species from Aristotle to modern systematics in order to understand the origin of the problem, and advocates a solution based on the idea of the division of conceptual labor, whereby species concepts function in different ways - theoretically and operationally. It also considers related topics such as individuality and the metaphysics of evolution, and how scientific terms get their meaning. This important addition to the current debate will be essential for philosophers and historians of science, and for biologists.
The Species Problem
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Author : Igor Pavlinov
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2013-02-06
The Species Problem written by Igor Pavlinov and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-06 with Science categories.
The book includes collection of theoretical papers dealing with the species problem, which is among most fundamental issues in biology. The principal topics are: consideration of the species problem from the standpoint of modern non-classical science paradigm, with emphasis on its conceptual status presuming its analysis within certain conceptual framework; evolutionary emergence of the species as discrete unit of certain level of generality; epistemological consideration of the species as a particular explanatory hypotheses, with respective revised concepts of biodiversity and conservation; considerations of evolutionary and phylogenomic species concepts as candidates for the universal one; re-appraisal of the biological species concept based on the "friend-foe" recognition system; species delimitation approach using multi-locus coalescent-based method; a re-consideration of the Darwin's species concept.
Speciation And Its Consequences
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Author : Daniel Otte
language : en
Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Incorporated
Release Date : 1989
Speciation And Its Consequences written by Daniel Otte and has been published by Sinauer Associates, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Science categories.
The Species Problem
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Author : David N. Stamos
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2003-03-17
The Species Problem written by David N. Stamos and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-17 with Philosophy categories.
Stamos squarely confronts the problem of determining what a biological species is, whether species are real, and the nature of their reality. He critically considers the evolution of the major contemporary views of species and also offers his own solution to the species problem.