عنوان

Metaphysics and the origin of species /

شابک

0791434672 (hardcover : alk. paper)

شابک

0791434680 (pbk. : alk. paper)

شابک

9780791434673 (hardcover : alk. paper)

شابک

9780791434680 (pbk. : alk. paper)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Metaphysics and the origin of species /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michael T. Ghiselin.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Albany :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

State University of New York Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c1997.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 377 p. ;

ابعاد

24 cm.

عنوان فروست

SUNY series in philosophy and biology

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-365) and index.

متن يادداشت

This discussion of the philosophy of evolutionary biology is based on the author's idea that species are not kinds of organisms but wholes composed of organisms - individuals in the broadest ontological sense. Although the book's primary focus is on species and speciation, it deals with a wide variety of other fundamental units and basic processes and provides a reexamination of the role of classification in biology and other sciences. In explaining his individuality thesis, Michael T. Ghiselin provides extended discussions of such philosophical topics as definition, the reality of various kinds of groups, and how we classify traits and processes. He develops and applies the implications for general biology and other sciences and makes the case that a better understanding of species and of classification in general puts biologists and paleontologists in a much better position to understand nature in general, and such processes as extinction in particular.

موضوع مستند نشده

Evolution (Biology)-- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Species-- Philosophy.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ghiselin, Michael T.,1939-

تاريخ عمليات

20140218104954.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y