Columbia University Press. , Date: 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. HARDCOVER; owner's signature on (blank) front free endpage; o/w in near fine condition. . 2000. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231101430 9780231101431 [US]

ISBN10: 0231101430, ISBN13: 9780231101431, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Softcover Paperback. No question in theoretical biology has been more perennially controversial or perplexing than "What is a species?" Recent advances in phylogenetic theory have called into question traditional views of species and spawned many concepts that are currently competing for general acceptance. Once the subject of esoteric intellectual exercises, the "species problem" has emerged as a critically important aspect of global environmental concerns. Completion of an inventory of biodiversity, success in conservation, predictive knowledge about life on earth, management of material resources, formulation of scientifically credible public policy and law, and more depend upon our adoption of the "right" species concept.Quentin D. Wheeler and Rudolf Meier present a debate among top systematic biology theorists to consider the strengths and weaknesses of five competing concepts. Debaters include (1) Ernst Mayr (Biological Species Concept), (2) Rudolf Meier and Rainer Willmann (Hennigian species concept), (3) Brent Mishler and Edward Theriot (one version of the Phylogenetic Species Concept), (4) Quentin Wheeler and Norman Platnick (a competing version of the Phylogenetic Species Concept), and (5) E. O. Wiley and Richard Mayden (the Evolutionary Species Concept).Each author or pair of authors contributes three essays to the debate: first, a ...

ISBN10: 0231101430, ISBN13: 9780231101431, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Softcover 0231101430
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