What Is The Nature Of A Species?

Started by Solitary, September 15, 2014, 11:36:41 AM

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Solitary

 The observation that at an intuitive level the nature of species seems fairly obvious. But a review of the technical literature reveals that our theoretical understanding of species is far from settled. The debate over the nature of species involves a number of issues. One issue is their ontological status: are species natural kinds or individuals? A second issue concerns pluralism: should we adopt species monism or species pluralism? A third issue, and perhaps the most fundamental issue, is whether the term ‘species’ refers to a real category in nature. Even Darwin, it seems, doubted that ‘species’ refers to a real category in nature. Solitary
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

SGOS

It's an arbitrary word generally understood in scientific circles, but like all science, is open to refinement.  I do not think the word can be found in creationist texts.  In fact, creationists do not even hear the word when it is said out loud.  Instead, there is a blank spot in the sentence it's used in, a blank spot that grows larger and larger until it consumes the entire sentence, and leaves a cloud of nothingness that can only be wiped away by a pilgrimage to the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where creationists are reanimated to a semi zombie condition.

PickelledEggs

The nature of s species is to survive. It varies from species to species how that is gone about though. How humans survive is vastly different than how field mice survive. and how field mice survive is fastly different than how amoeba survive.... etc. It's always about survival.