UID:
edocfu_9959243595402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (236 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-028691-1
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0-19-770118-3
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1-280-53168-1
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9786610531684
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0-19-534931-8
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1-60256-451-5
Serie:
Oxford scholarship online
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Previously issued in print: 2001.
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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
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FG; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-514477-5
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195144772.001.0001
