Genes, categories, and species : the evolutionary and cognitive causes of the species problem / / Jody Hey
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 576.8/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Species |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2001. |
| 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: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Genes, categories, and species |
| ISBN: | 0-19-028691-1 |
| 0-19-770118-3 | |
| 1-280-53168-1 | |
| 9786610531684 | |
| 0-19-534931-8 | |
| 1-60256-451-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827319703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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