Charles Darwin, ichthyology and the species concept
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This issue of Fish and Fisheries, devoted to the‘Species Concept in Fish’, could bene¢t, one might think, from a brief review of what Charles Darwin (1809^1882), the founder of evolutionary biology, might have to sayabout ¢shes and the species concept. Darwin, as every biologist knows,wrote numerous books on particular groups of organisms: barnacles, orchids, earthworms, but neveron ¢shes.To compensate for this, I have assembled a book, titled ‘Darwin’s Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology and Evolution’ based on a detailed analysis of material extracted from the work Darwin published during F ISH and F ISHER I E S, 2002, 3, 146^150
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