Species

342 Species solely upon what the research issues are. While “population” is itself somewhat fuzzy^8 —the more migration there is ...

Species Realism 343 in geographical isolation. Some are not. There are species formed by hybridization,^13 by sexual selection, ...

344 Species The second alternative is that species plays a theoretical role in biology, and this seems intuitively right: we som ...

Species Realism 345 exists in a domain, as basically the bounded variables of the best theory of that domain: that is, Quine’s “ ...

346 Species right that no theory of biology requires species, then they are never the value of a bound variable in any model of ...

Species Realism 347 see mountains. Similarly, we may need to use all kinds of assay techniques to see species, but when we have ...

348 Species In Appendix B, I give 28 conceptions^31 of species in the modern (post-Synthesis) literature (and four replacement c ...

Species Realism 349 distinguished between ecotypes and ecospecies, which were populations prevented by adaptation to a particula ...

350 Species techniques for drawing up their cladograms.^33 The problem is that, without some way of saying what the level of sep ...

Species Realism 351 Pattern Recognition and Abduction We tend to classify epistemic activities into two kinds: induction (about ...

352 Species of investigation for which there is as yet no explanation, all we have is evidence, but apart from our evolved dispo ...

Species Realism 353 found they did not discriminate them.^45 Why did Mayr’s informants know their birds while Wilson’s did not k ...

354 Species “loveliness” of competing hypotheses. But while pattern recognition involves prior knowledge—of the domain and its g ...

Species Realism 355 In a way, this is similar to the phylogenetic species problem—given that not all species are monophyletic, a ...

356 Species would be opaque to us. However, any biologist would know that we do share a Lebensform with lions, and indeed all ma ...

Species Realism 357 effects that make an organism the organism it is. Oyama’s comment indicates that what “makes” a species incl ...

358 Species It also explains why it is that when autochthonous peoples employ organisms eco- nomically, say by hunting them or r ...

Species Realism 359 The species conception applied in each case depends on whether that spe- cies meets the conditions for that ...

360 Species of various kinds, or they may turn out not to be, but in the end, the etymology of speciesform or appearanceis a g ...

Species Realism 361 Day, Rachel L. et al. 2003. Rethinking adaptation: The niche-construction perspective. Perspectives in Biolo ...