Significados de emergent characters em inglês

But we do not require emergent characters to identify a process of selection.

In preparing this chapter, I finally realized why I had originally erred in restricting species selection to emergent characters.

The A realm seems firmer because emergent characters count as adaptations of species, and maintain no expression at lower levels.

In the first category, emergent characters of species obviously can't operate at the organismic level because they don't exist for organisms.

Vrba and I were not wrong in identifying emergent characters as especially interesting (we only erred in deeming them necessary for species selection).

Thus, emergent characters are special and fascinating (though not essential to the definition and recognition of species as legitimate Darwinian individuals-seeGould and Lloyd, 1999).

Emergent characters thus stand out in designating the style of individuality maintained by species.

Emergent characters belong exclusively to the species.