Species, Demes, and the Omega Taxonomy: Gilmour and The NewSystematics
Species, Demes, and the Omega Taxonomy: Gilmour and The NewSystematics
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物种、种群和 Omega 分类学：吉尔莫和新系统学
DOI：
10.1023/a:1006774217770
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
M. Winsor
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作者：
M. Winsor
“deme”这个词是由植物学家J.S.L. Gilmour和J.W.Gregor在1939年，遵循J.S.赫胥黎的“诊所”。它的目的不仅是为了使描述染色体和遗传变异的过多术语合理化，而且也是为了减少传统分类学家和进化研究者之间的敌意，后者有时会嘲笑对方对物种的理解。Gilmour和J. Heslop-Harrison在1954年发表了一个基于deme的多层复合术语系统，但没有被广泛使用。动物学家赫胥黎、辛普森、赖特和迈尔等领导进化论综合学说的人采用了“德”这个词，但对其含义进行了修改。吉尔摩的想法之间的连接显示围绕definingthe deme，他在成立系统学协会的作用，和他的章节“分类学和哲学”在书中的新系统。这一历史性的插曲提出了关于在科学实践中仔细定义的单词的作用的问题。
The word ``deme'' was coined by the botanists J.S.L. Gilmour and J.W.Gregor in 1939, following the pattern of J.S. Huxley's ``cline''. Its purposewas not only to rationalize the plethora of terms describing chromosomaland genetic variation, but also to reduce hostility between traditionaltaxonomists and researchers on evolution, who sometimes scorned eachother's understanding of species. A multi-layered system of compoundterms based on deme was published by Gilmour and J. Heslop-Harrison in1954 but not widely used. Deme was adopted with a modified meaning byzoologists leading the evolutionary synthesis – Huxley, Simpson, Wright,and Mayr. Connections are shown between Gilmour's ideas around definingthe deme, his role in founding the Systematics Association, and his chapter``Taxonomy and Philosophy'' in the book The New Systematics. Thishistorical episode raises questions about the role of carefully-definedwords in scientific practice.