1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000505600403321

Autore

Helszajn, Joseph

Titolo

Principles of microwave ferrite engineering / J. Helszajn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Wiley-Interscience, ©1969

ISBN

0-471-36930-6

Descrizione fisica

258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

621.381'3

Locazione

DINEL

Collocazione

10 E III 98

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783263903321

Autore

Hey Jody

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-19-770118-3

1-280-53168-1

9786610531684

0-19-534931-8

1-60256-451-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

576.8/6

Soggetti

Species

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 sp