Is it time to abandon the biological species concept? No

• 作者: Roger K.Butlin Sean Stankowski
• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（8）
• 页码范围: 1400-1401
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa109

摘要

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a concept as,'an idea of a class of objects, a general notion'.It follows from this definition that a concept cannot be rejected in the way that a hypothesis might be rejected if its predictions are inconsistent with observations.Instead, a concept must be judged by its heuristic value:does it help in making sense of the natural world?