Species Problem: Issues and Challenges Issues and Challenges

An elucidative account regarding the topic of species problem and certain issues as well as challenges related to it have been provided in this book. It is a compilation of theoretical research works regarding the species problem, which is among the most elementary issues in biology. The primary topics covered in this book are: evolutionary emergence of the species as an individual unit of a specific level of generality; consideration of the species problem from the point of view of modern non-conventional science paradigm, with stress on its conceptual status presuming its characterization in the boundaries of specific conceptual framework; a review of the concept of biological species on the basis of the "friend-foe" identification system; considerations of the concepts of phylogenomics and evolution of species as candidates for the universal one; species delimitation approach employing multi-locus coalescent-based technique; epistemological view of the species as a specific explanatory hypotheses; review of species concept proposed by Darwin.