Sentence examples for idea species from inspiring English sources
Species: a history of the idea, Species and Systematics.
What they said - about where we come from - when Sixth century BC The idea that species could change and evolve into other species existed before Darwin and Wallace came up with their theory of natural selection.
He published a brief outline of the idea of species being able to change into other species through natural selection – this great, transformative idea that unites us all in a single tree of life.
Prior to the work of Darwin, work on the idea of species concerns almost exclusively how it is that species come to be in the first place.
Explain that it was Plato's philosophy an outgrowth of Pythagorean mysticism that led to the establishment of the nonevolutionary idea of species as eternal entities, which became the prevailing species concept for over 2,000 years.
Second, the idea that species are ordered into a hierarchy, with predator species consuming only those prey that are at or below the predator's position in the hierarchy.
The traditional view that has dominated ecology until the 1990's started from the idea that species distribution patterns resulted directly from the abiotic and biotic (species interactions) components determining the environment.
Chief among these amendments is one that would compel science teachers to instruct students about aspects of the fossil record that do not neatly fit with the idea of species' gradually changing over time, like the relatively sudden appearance of some species and the fact that others seem to remain unchanged for millions of years.
The idea that species with intermediate dispersal ability might be more affected by fragmentation than species with either high or low dispersal has already been predicted theoretically (Fahrig 1998).
But this is a worldview away from Darwin's idea that species evolve fluidly over time.
However, the idea that species are determined by an unchangeable core essence directly contradicts the theory of evolution.
