Some articles on species:
... The estimated total population of the species is only 2,750 in the wild, including about 1,000 birds in the resident Japanese population ... efforts of Russia, China, Japan and Korea are needed to keep the species from extinction ... lack of remaining pristine wetland habitats for the species to nest in ...
... The fossil species assigned to the genus Machairodus were divided by Turner into two grades of evolutionary development - M ...
... distinguish it from other animals or plants of the same species, and arrived at through selective breeding ... what qualities make some members of a given species members of a nameable subset ... variants above the level of breed/cultivar (species, subspecies, botanical variety, even different genera) are referred to as hybrids ...
... In combinatorial mathematics, the theory of combinatorial species is an abstract, systematic method for analysing discrete structures in terms of generating functions ... One goal of species theory is to be able to analyse complicated structures by describing them in terms of transformations and combinations of simpler structures ... list versus adjacency matrix for graphs) is irrelevant, because species are purely algebraic ...
... Such transport is vital to the pollination of many plant species ... their particular type of vector, for example day-pollinated species tend to be brightly coloured, but if they are pollinated largely by birds or specialist mammals, they tend to be larger ... where insect and sometimes also bird populations may be unstable and less species-rich ...
More definitions of "species":
- (noun): (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed.
Famous quotes related to species:
“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.... Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another—cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run down by much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)