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- Title
The Problem With The Species Problem.
- Authors
Ellis, Mark W.
- Abstract
When Charles Darwin convinced the scientific community that species evolve, the long-held essentialist view of each species as fixed was rejected and a clear conceptual understanding of the term was lost. For the next century, a real species problem existed that became culturally entrenched within the scientific community. Although largely solved decades ago, the species problem remains entrenched today due to a suite of factors. Most of the factors that help maintain its perceived intractability have been revealed and logically dismissed; yet this is not widely known so those factors continue to be influential. It is time to recognize this false foundation and relegate the species problem to history.
- Publication
History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2011, Vol 33, Issue 3, p343
- ISSN
0391-9714
- Publication type
Academic Journal