The Species Problem
Ongoing Issues

Contributor(s)
Pavlinov, Igor Ya. (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
The book includes collection of theoretical papers dealing with the species problem, which is among most fundamental issues in biology. The principal topics are: consideration of the species problem from the standpoint of modern non-classical science paradigm, with emphasis on its conceptual status presuming its analysis within certain conceptual framework; evolutionary emergence of the species as discrete unit of certain level of generality; epistemological consideration of the species as a particular explanatory hypotheses, with respective revised concepts of biodiversity and conservation; considerations of evolutionary and phylogenomic species concepts as candidates for the universal one; re-appraisal of the biological species concept based on the "friend-foe" recognition system; species delimitation approach using multi-locus coalescent-based method; a re-consideration of the Darwin's species concept.
Keywords
BiogeographyDOI
10.5772/3313Webshop link
https://www.intechopen.com/booksISBN
9789535109570, 9789535153535Publisher
IntechOpenPublisher website
https://www.intechopen.com/Publication date and place
2013Imprint
IntechOpenClassification
Regional geography