Species: A History of the Idea (Species and Systematics) by John S. Wilkins

By John S. Wilkins

The advanced notion of "species" has developed through the years, but its that means is much from resolved. This complete paintings takes a clean examine an idea valuable to the sector of biology via tracing its heritage from antiquity to this present day. John S. Wilkins explores the essentialist view, a staple of common sense from Plato and Aristotle throughout the heart a long time to relatively contemporary occasions, and considers the belief of species in usual history—a thought frequently attached to replica. Tracing "generative conceptions" of species again via Darwin to Epicurus, Wilkins presents a brand new standpoint at the dating among philosophical and organic techniques to this idea. He additionally studies the array of present definitions. Species is a benchmark exploration and explanation of an idea basic to the earlier, current, and way forward for the traditional sciences.

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