The Species Problem: Ongoing Issues (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789535109570)

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.

Author: Igor Pavlinov
ISBN-10: 953510957X
ISBN-13: 9789535109570
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2013
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d