The species concept remains an abstraction; Nature consists of individuals; similar individuals form syngameons, and these have been mistaken for species. As the gamete takes precedence over the individual, the course of evolution should be traced by the genealogy of the gametes.
- synanthropic species
- synapomorphy
- synapse
- synbiology
- syncytium
- synecology
- synectry
- synerg
- synergetics
- synergy
- syngameon
- syngamospecies
- synoecy
- synthetic biology
- synthetic Darwinism
- synthetic evolutionary theory
- synthetic theory of evolution
- synusia
- system causality
- system of biology
- system of dependencies
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syngameonSyngameon (ger.)
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A cluster of species and subspecies between the members of which natural hybridization occurs. (OED 1986)
- 1922
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Lotsy, J.P. (1922). Factors of evolution. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Sciece 1921: 453.
- 1925
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we have in Betula one very large pairing-community, one syngameonLotsy, J.P. (1925). Species or Linneon? Genetica 7, 487-506: 496.
- 1957
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Syngameon [...] a hybridising group of species; the most inclusive interbreeding population
Grant, V. (1957). The plant species in theory and practice. In: Mayr, E. (ed.). The Species Problem. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. Publ. 50, 39-80: 67.
- 1982
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syngameon A group of sympatric or at least marginally sympatric semispecies q.v.
Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 241.