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

• Autore: Hey Jody
• 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: 9786610531684; 9780190286910; 0190286911; 9780197701188; 0197701183; 9781280531682; 1280531681; 9780195349313; 0195349318; 9781602564510; 1602564515
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970006203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.