Genes, categories, and species : the evolutionary and cognitive causes of the species problem / Jody Hey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hey, Jody, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Species.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Re-examining the 'species problem', whereby biologists cannot agree on how best to identify species and what constitutes useful and genuine biological divisions of groups and organisms, Jody Hey develops a theory of evolutionary groups.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Part I: The Hidden Question; 1. The Species Problem; 2. The Mode of Ignorance; 3. The Theory of Life; Part I: Conclusions; Part II: Species in Nature and within the Mind; 4. Categories; 5. Typological Thinking about Species; 6. Biological Diversity; 7. Recombination and Biological Species; 8. The Cause of the Species Problem; 9. The Origin of Natural Kinds; Part II: Conclusions; Part III: Living with the Species Problem; 10. Phylogeny; 11. Systematics; 12. Evolutionary Biology; 13. What Are Species? What Are Taxa?; 14. What Is to Be Done?; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E

FG; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9786610531684

9780190286910

0190286911

9780197701188

0197701183

9781280531682

1280531681

9780195349313

0195349318

9781602564510

1602564515

OCLC:

173842053