Genes, categories, and species : the evolutionary and cognitive causes of the species problem /
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 Darwi...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129756 |
| Summary: | 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 spec. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211). |
| ISBN: | 0195144775 9780195144772 1602564515 9781602564510 9780195349313 0195349318 1280531681 9781280531682 0195302834 9780195302837 |