A current list of species concepts 18 Nov 201718 Nov 2017 As part of my book, I have updated the list of species concepts. Thought you lot might like this: Species conceptions Basic Convention Taxonomic species [TSC] Diagnostic Morphospecies [MSC] Genealogy Evolutionary species [ESC] [Monophyly] Phylospecies [PSC] Gene-based Genetic species [GSC] Reproductive reach Biospecies [BSC] Ecological niche Ecospecies [EcSC] Replacement concepts Operational Taxonomic Units Least Inclusive Taxonomic Units [LITU] Smallest Named and Recognised Clades [SNaRCs] Composite concepts Phylogenetic [mostly] Synapomorphic species [SySC] Internodal species [ISC] Cladospecies [CISC] Hennigian species [HSC] Phylogenetic Taxon species [PTSC] Autapomorphic species Composite Species [CpSC] Genealogical concordance species [GCC] Others General Lineage Concept [GLC] Genic species [GeSC] Genotypic cluster [GCD] Non-dimensional species [NDSC] Nothospecies [NSC] Phenospecies [PhSC] Recognition species [RSC] Reproductive competition species [RCC] Successional species [SSC] Metapopulations Cohesion species [CSC] Evolutionary significant unit [ESU] Agamospecies [ASC] Biology Science Species and systematics Species concept Systematics
Species concept A review at Arnhart 18 Sep 2009 and a fair one I think. Not that I agree with him about Darwin, but there’s room for honest disagreement. Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design The problem of foreknowledge 28 Jun 2010 So, following on from my previous post on theism and science, let’s consider another aspect of the problem: foreknowledge. How could God know what would occur if the universe is fundamentally, by which we mean at the quantum mechanical level, indeterminate? We know from chaos theory (and chaos is determinate,… Read More
Biology Did Popper and Quine invent “Aristotelian essentialism”? 7 Feb 201221 Jun 2018 There are many narratives told about evolution. One of the most widely told is the Essentialism Story, replayed in textbook, popular storytelling and philosophy alike. It goes like this: Before Darwin, biologists were constrained by essentialist thinking, in which they were committed to species being natural kinds where there were… Read More