Species in the Age of Discordance: Meeting Report and Introduction
Matthew H. Haber, Department of Philosophy, School of Biology, and Center for Quantitative Biology, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Bldg Room 402, 215 S Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City UT, 84112, USA
Email: matt.haber@utah.edu
SUBJECT TERMS Conference Discordance Genealogical Discordance Phylo-evo-devo Phylogenetics Species
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In 2017, three interdisciplinary workshops were held on whether and how biological discordance might impact our views on species. Though the prompting focus of these workshops was genealogical discordance, the precise sense of ‘discordance’ was left intentionally ambiguous. This was to encourage an examination of the question from many different perspectives and to foster connections across disciplines. Participants included philosophers, historians, and other social scientists, alongside a range of biologists representing microbiology, population genetics, phylogenetics, invasion biology, herpetology, and ecology, among other areas. Here, context is provided for those workshops and to help motivate why biological discordance generates useful interdisciplinary research problems, along with brief summaries of the workshop papers included in this special issue.
Part of the special issue Species in the Age of Discordance, guest-edited by Matthew H. Haber and Daniel J. Molter.
Matthew H. Haber, Department of Philosophy, School of Biology, and Center for Quantitative Biology, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Bldg Room 402, 215 S Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City UT, 84112, USA
Email: matt.haber@utah.edu
Daniel J. Molter, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, USA
Email: dan.molter@utah.edu Skip other details (including permanent urls, DOI, citation information)SUBJECT TERMS Conference Discordance Genealogical Discordance Phylo-evo-devo Phylogenetics Species
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Volume 11, No. 012, 2019
Received 20 May 2019; Accepted 20 May 2019
In 2017, three interdisciplinary workshops were held on whether and how biological discordance might impact our views on species. Though the prompting focus of these workshops was genealogical discordance, the precise sense of ‘discordance’ was left intentionally ambiguous. This was to encourage an examination of the question from many different perspectives and to foster connections across disciplines. Participants included philosophers, historians, and other social scientists, alongside a range of biologists representing microbiology, population genetics, phylogenetics, invasion biology, herpetology, and ecology, among other areas. Here, context is provided for those workshops and to help motivate why biological discordance generates useful interdisciplinary research problems, along with brief summaries of the workshop papers included in this special issue.
Part of the special issue Species in the Age of Discordance, guest-edited by Matthew H. Haber and Daniel J. Molter.
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