Clifford J Jolly
Clifford J Jolly
A review of the vast literature on the epistemology and ontology of "species" is far beyond the capacity of both the writer and the length-allotment of this essay, limiting it to a somewhat dogmatic presentation of personal opinions, few of...
Philip D Gingerich
Philip D Gingerich
Species in the fossil record are population pools of genetic and phenetic variation at a place and time, morphologically recognizable and distinguishable from others by empirical standards. Change through time can be substantial, requiring ...
Tim D White
Tim D White
Evolutionary biologists created a large twentieth-century literature about delimiting biological species. Paleontologists contributed the unique complications of deep time. Toward century's end, one participant wrote: "In all probability mo...
Species: beasts of burden [0.03%]
物种：家养动物
Alfred L Rosenberger
Alfred L Rosenberger
Ernst Mayr (1904-2005) was the twentieth century's most influential writer to wrestle with the species problem. The following draws heavily on his work, albeit without presumptuously claiming to mirror his thinking or present any original i...
A pragmatic approach to the species problem from a paleontological perspective [0.03%]
从古生物学视角务实求是地看待“物种问题”
Mary T Silcox
Mary T Silcox
The ideal scenario for paleontologists would be for the species they designate to be equivalent to the species recognized for modern animals, in the sense that they were formed as a result of the same evolutionary processes. This would mean...
Dietmar Zinner,Christian Roos
Dietmar Zinner
Since Darwin's time, the question "what a species" has provoked fierce disputes and a tremendous number of publications, from short opinion papers to thick volumes. The debates covered fundamental philosophical questions, such as: Do specie...
Edward E Louis Jr,Runhua Lei
Edward E Louis Jr
The answer to the proffered question, "What is a species?" is considered one of the fundamental issues of biological science, as well as one of the most polarizing and sometimes acrimonious problems. Dozens of species concepts have been def...
Gene flow happens [0.03%]
基因流动发生了
Anne D Yoder
Anne D Yoder
Debate over what is a species was already considered old hat when Darwin wrote his seminal abstract (as he called it) more than 150 years ago.(1) Endless papers, workshops, and symposia have been presented in an effort to "solve" the specie...
Species concepts, diversity, and evolution in primates: lessons to be learned from mouse lemurs [0.03%]
灵长目的物种概念、多样性及进化：从鼠标狐猴身上得到的启示
Elke Zimmermann,Ute Radespiel
Elke Zimmermann
Humans primarily rely on vision when categorizing the world. If you just look at the same-sized but strikingly differently colored Neotropical poison-dart frogs such as strawberry frogs (Fig. ), you would be convinced that they must belong ...
Anthony B Rylands,Russell A Mittermeier
Anthony B Rylands
Primatology as a discrete branch of science involving the study of primate behavior and ecology took off in the 1960s after discovery of the importance of primates as models for biomedical research and the realization that primates provide ...