Species

82 Species friend Sauvages that he was unable “to understand anything that is not systemati- cally ordered,”^147 and he was obse ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 83 metaphor of countries adjoining each other.^154 In his early writing, all the territo ...

84 Species specimens between him and other taxonomists and collectors.^163 Linnaeus hoped that his system would enable taxonomis ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 85 His pupil and later associate was the famous early evolutionist Lamarck, but Buffon w ...

86 Species ... if, by means of copulation, they can perpetuate themselves and the likeness of the species; and we should regard ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 87 to Darwin’s later pangenesis hypothesis. As Eddy recounts the hypothesis, unused mol- ...

88 Species have a common root, and can assume that originally they all sprang from this root, of which one is reminded by the la ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 89 only that there should be no a priori specication of what characters were to be used ...

90 Species Although it was not published, this passage indicates, as Staeu notes, that Adanson thought that it was resemblance ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 91 Jussieu inuenced many, if not most, of those who followed. He directly inu- enced b ...

92 Species the same founding group. Genera are thus established with closely similar species, and are given with no formal and p ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 93 If there are no cleavages in nature, it is evident that our classications [Distribut ...

94 Species Lovejoy notes wryly, “[t]hus the general habit of thinking in terms of species, as well as the sense of separation of ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 95 Geotrupidæ Scarabæidæ Aphodiidæ Trogidæ Dynastidæ Sa prophaga Anoplognathidæ Rutelidæ ...

96 Species extended discussion in his Preliminary Discourse^216 on what counted as a “natu- ral classication.” This debate in p ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 97 similarities, but a natural division [Natureintheilung] is based upon the common stem ...

98 Species For animals whose variety is so great that an equal number of separate creations would have been necessary for their ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 99 ... but not content with this, they are unable to banish the thought that behind thes ...

100 Species He wants species to be useful in reason and understanding—if there were no gaps in nature, then we could not make se ...

Species and the Birth of Modern Science 101 discusses whether all canines are independent creations or descend from a common sto ...