2nd Sem Q1 Week 3 Lesson 1 Patterns of Descent With Modification
2nd Sem Q1 Week 3 Lesson 1 Patterns of Descent With Modification
2nd Sem Q1 Week 3 Lesson 1 Patterns of Descent With Modification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fO
5Q_8L7g&t=430s
Patterns of Descent
with Modification
Attempts to define the concept of species date back to the Greek
philosophers Plato and Aristotle, who viewed the world as we know
it as a flawed shadow of the eternal and immutable world of ideas.
Indeed, the word “species” originates from the Latin “kinds” which
is a translation of the Greek word eidos (idea). Ernst Mayr played a
central role in the establishment of the general concept of species as
metapopulation lineages, and he is the author of one of the most
popular of the numerous alternative definitions of the species
category. According to him, “Species are groups of interbreeding
natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such
groups.”
Another definition based on George Gaylord Simpson,
“species is a lineage (an ancestral-descendant sequence of
populations) evolving separately from others and with its
own unitary evolutionary role and tendencies.” Similarly,
according to Leigh Van Valen, “a species is a lineage (or a
closely related set of lineages) which occupies an adaptive
zone minimally different from that of any other lineage in
its range and which evolves separately from all lineages
outside its range.”
What is the definition of species?