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

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Hey, Jody

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0195144775
9780195144772
1602564515
9781602564510
9780195349313
0195349318
1280531681
9781280531682
0195302834
9780195302837

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Genes, categories, and species.DDC classification:

576.8/6 21

LOC classification:

QH83 .H53 2001eb

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Q111
Q319

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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.

Summary: 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 spec.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211).

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 spec.

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