LCB0177 - História do Pensamento Biológico (2020)

"THE CLASSICAL ERA: SCIENCE BY DIVISION

The history of the species concept can be divided into a prebiological and a postbiological history, which is how the Received View has always treated it. But the two histories overlap substantially, and it is much bet- ter to consider instead the history of the species idea that applies to any objects of classification—the tradition of universal taxonomy and philo- sophical logic—and, independently, the particular history of the species idea that applies solely to biological organisms. Even though, for exam- ple, Linnaeus [Linne 1788–1793, vol. 3] famously applied the notion species to minerals as well as organisms, his biological usage included elements not included in the mineralogical case. We must separate uni- versal and biological taxonomic notions of species."