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UNINA9910827319703321 |
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Autore |
Hey Jody |
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Titolo |
Genes, categories, and species : the evolutionary and cognitive causes of the species problem / / Jody Hey |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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0-19-028691-1 |
0-19-770118-3 |
1-280-53168-1 |
9786610531684 |
0-19-534931-8 |
1-60256-451-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2001. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
FG; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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