Darwin escreveu, mas não explicou a origem das espécies e não sabemos o que é!

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The Species Problem - Ongoing Issues

Edited by Igor Ya. Pavlinov, ISBN 978-953-51-0957-0, 290 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published February 06, 2013 under CC BY 3.0 license

Edited Volume


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.

BOOK CONTENTS BOOK EDITOR MOST DOWNLOADED CHAPTER SHOW TO LINK

Chapter 1  
by Igor Ya. Pavlinov

Chapter 2  
by Richard A. Richards

Chapter 3  
by Victor Prokhorovich Shcherbakov

Chapter 4  
by Kirk Fitzhugh

Chapter 5  
by James T. Staley

Chapter 6  
by Larissa N. Vasilyeva and Steven L. Stephenson

Chapter 7  
by Richard L. Mayden

Chapter 8  
by V. S. Friedmann

Chapter 9  
by Arley Camargo and Jack Jr. Sites

Chapter 10  
by David N. Stamos