Species Don’t Exist
Species Don’t Exist
Theorizing Life Forms
Chapter Seven samples my various discussions with botanists about how the species concept holding up. Their answers are consistently surprising, provocative and insightful. Taxonomists, I learn, are radically constructivist in their approach—though their work involves highly detailed and exacting identification of species. They increasingly vie against geneticists who promote identifying species by molecular analysis.
Keywords: Multispecies plants nonhumans ethnography race science studies taxonomy biodiversity
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