So, what have I been doing for the Covid Lockdown. Many things. This is one of them.
The CRC Press link is here, but I’ll give the table of contents below. The beautiful cover art is by Scott Partridge, an artist in North Carolina. It is entitled Abyssal Zone.
Table of Contents
Section 1. Concepts and theories
Chapter 1. We Are Nearly Ready to Begin the Species Problem—Matthew J. Barker
Chapter 2. Is the Species Problem That Important?—Yuichi Amitani
Chapter 3. ‘Species’ as a technical term: Multiple meanings in practice, one idea in theory—Thomas A.C. Reydon
Chapter 4. What Should Species Be? Taxonomic Inflation and the Ethics of Splitting and Lumping—Jay Odenbaugh
Chapter 5. The Good Species—John S. Wilkins
Section 2. Practice and methods
Chapter 6. Species in the Time of Big Data: The Multi-species Coalescent, the General Lineage Concept, and Species Delimitation—Aleta Quinn
Chapter 7. Species delimitation using molecular data—Megan L. Smith, Bryan C. Carstens
Chapter 8. Taxonomic order, disorder and governance—Stijn Conix, Stephen T. Garnett, Frank E. Zachos, Les Christidis
Section 3. Ranks and trees and names
Chapter 9. Ecology, evolution, and systematics in a post-species world—Brent D. Mishler
Chapter 10. The species before and after Linnaeus – tension between disciplinary nomadism and conservative nomenclature—Alessandro Minelli
Chapter 11. Taxonomic hierarchies as a tool for coping with the complexity of biodiversity—Julia D. Sigwart
Section 4. Metaphysics and epistemologies
Chapter 12. The species problem from a conceptualist’s viewpoint—Igor Ya. Pavlinov
Chapter 13. (Some) Species are Processes—John Dupré
Chapter 14. Metaphysical presuppositions about species stability: problematic and unavoidable—Catherine Kendig
Chapter 15. Critique of taxonomic reason(ing): nature’s joints in light of an ‘Honest’ Species Concept and Kurt Hübner’s historistic philosophy of science—Frank E. Zachos
Afterword
Chapter 16. Continuing After Species: An Afterword—Robert A. Wilson