Los linajes biológicos como individuos

Gustavo Caponi

Resumen


Biological lineages as individuals.

The thesis according to which, in evolutionary biology, species are thought as individual entities is discussed here pointing to three particular questions: the supposition that individuals are always entities able to be spatially localized; the characterization of the nature of the processes to which taxa, being individual entities, are submitted, and the need of a clear distinction between two types of individual entities: the lineages and the systems. We also make comparisons between the Darwinian way of understanding species and the way in which Buffon understood them, and between the Darwinian genealogical taxonomy and the typological taxonomy proposed by Cuvier.

Key words: Genealogy, individuals, lineages, natural kinds, species, systems, typology.


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