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The Species Problem : Ongoing Issues / Igor Ya Pavlinov, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pavlinov, Igor Ya., Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Species.
- Species--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Species Problem
- Place of Publication:
- IntechOpen 2013
- Rijeka, Croatia : IntechOpen, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 17, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789535153535
- 9535153536
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