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So what is a species anyway? A primatological perspective
Since Darwin's time, the question “what a species” has provoked fierce disputes and a tremendous number of publications, from short opinion papers to thick volumes.1 The debates covered fundamental philosophical questions, such as: Do species exist at all independently of a human observer or ar...
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description | Since Darwin's time, the question “what a species” has provoked fierce disputes and a tremendous number of publications, from short opinion papers to thick volumes.1 The debates covered fundamental philosophical questions, such as: Do species exist at all independently of a human observer or are they just a construct of the human mind to categorize nature's organismic diversity and serve as a semantic tool in human communication about biodiversity?2–4 or: Are species natural kinds (classes) or individuals that are “born” by speciation, change in course of time, and finally “die” when they go extinct or diverge into new species?5–8 Also included was the problem of species as taxa (taxonomic) versus species as products of the speciation process (evolutionary).9 More pragmatic issues arose, such as: How can we reliably delineate and delimitate species?10, 11 The great interest in what a species is reflects the importance of “species” as fundamental units in most fields of biology, especially evolutionary biology, ecology, and conservation.2, 12–14 |
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spelling | pubmed-42339482014-12-03 So what is a species anyway? A primatological perspective Zinner, Dietmar Roos, Christian Evol Anthropol Issues Since Darwin's time, the question “what a species” has provoked fierce disputes and a tremendous number of publications, from short opinion papers to thick volumes.1 The debates covered fundamental philosophical questions, such as: Do species exist at all independently of a human observer or are they just a construct of the human mind to categorize nature's organismic diversity and serve as a semantic tool in human communication about biodiversity?2–4 or: Are species natural kinds (classes) or individuals that are “born” by speciation, change in course of time, and finally “die” when they go extinct or diverge into new species?5–8 Also included was the problem of species as taxa (taxonomic) versus species as products of the speciation process (evolutionary).9 More pragmatic issues arose, such as: How can we reliably delineate and delimitate species?10, 11 The great interest in what a species is reflects the importance of “species” as fundamental units in most fields of biology, especially evolutionary biology, ecology, and conservation.2, 12–14 Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-01-02 2014-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4233948/ /pubmed/24591137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.21390 Text en Copyright © 2014 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
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title | So what is a species anyway? A primatological perspective |
title_full | So what is a species anyway? A primatological perspective |
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title_full_unstemmed | So what is a species anyway? A primatological perspective |
title_short | So what is a species anyway? A primatological perspective |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4233948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24591137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.21390 |
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