What, If Anything, Are Species?
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
- Species and Systematics Series .
- Species and Systematics Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author Biography -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: What Should the Species Level Represent within the Current Ranked Codes of Nomenclature? -- Chapter 2: The Need for Pluralism Because of Different Biologies in Different Taxa -- Species Concepts: A Case for Pluralism -- The Morphological, Developmental, and Phylogenetic Basis of Species Concepts in Bryophytes -- Species and Evolution in Clonal Organisms - Introduction -- Chapter 3: A Phylogenetic Species Concept -- Individuality, Pluralism, and the Phylogenetic Species Concept -- The Phylogenetic Species Concept (Sensu Mishler and Theriot): Monophyly, Apomorphy, and Phylogenetic Species Concepts -- Part II: What Should Happen to Taxa at the Traditional Species Level under a Rankless Code of Nomenclature? -- Chapter 4: General Principles of Rankless Classification Extended to the Species Rank -- Getting Rid of Species? -- Species are not Uniquely Real Biological Entities -- Species and Phylogenetic Nomenclature -- The Hunting of the SNaRC: A Snarky Solution to the Species Problem -- Chapter 5: Discussion: What Would the World Be Like without the Species Rank? -- Endnotes -- Index.