1: The Species Problem
2: The Mode of Life
3: The Theory of Life
End of Part 1
4: Categories in the World and in the Mind
5: Typological Thinking About Species
6: Biological Diversity
7: Recombination and Biological Species
8: The Cause of the Species Problem
9: The Origin of Natural Kinds
End of Part 2
10: Phylogeny
11: Systematics
12: Evolutionary Biology
13: What are Species? And What are Taxa?
14: What is to be Done?
Jody Hey is Professor of Genetics at Rutgers University, where he uses both mathematical theory and DNA sequencing to study the process of evolution. In recent years he has conducted research on the evolutionary divergence of fruit fly species and on the evolutionary origins of modern humans. This book was written while Dr. Hey was visiting the University of Edinburgh, Scotland with the aid of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
"His casual style and thought-provoking examples are
convincing...Combining the data collection Hey calls for with a
treatment of species concepts as models would advance our
understanding of how the world of real evolutionary groups is
structured." -- Kerry L. Shaw, Science
"In this important and refreshing view of the species debate, Jody
Hey draws on a range of philosophical and evolutionary arguments to
argue convincingly . . ."--Heredity
"This book links together philosophy, linguistics, and biology in
an innovative fashion to arrive at a resolution of the
long-standing "species question" of biology. Hey is able to frame
his arguments in a style that makes what might otherwise be
impenetrable, engaging. It will stimulate useful discussion and
insight into the history of science, the physics-envy of
ecologists, and the ability of scientists to be truly objective. A
thought-provoking and
profoundly insightful work."--Choice
"His casual style and thought-provoking examples are
convincing...Combining the data collection Hey calls for with a
treatment of species concepts as models would advance our
understanding of how the world of real evolutionary groups is
structured." -- Kerry L. Shaw, Science
"In this important and refreshing view of the species debate, Jody
Hey draws on a range of philosophical and evolutionary arguments to
argue convincingly. . ."--Heredity
"This book links together philosophy, linguistics, and biology in
an innovative fashion to arrive at a resolution of the
long-standing "species question" of biology. Hey is able to frame
his arguments in a style that makes what might otherwise be
impenetrable, engaging. It will stimulate useful discussion and
insight into the history of science, the physics-envy of
ecologists, and the ability of scientists to be truly objective. A
thought-provoking and
profoundly insightful work."--Choice
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