These days, I have been thinking about speciation and diversification. If we make the most simple assumption as below, we come to the one species model. The questions could be below -
1. If there is only 1 species with only 1 gene, how does this species evolve? Can we illustrate the species evolutionary history with mathematics?
2. If there are m species, with n genes for each one, how does the species diversity evolve? There are no interactions between species/genes. Can we illustrate the species diversity evolve with mathematics?
Without answers to the 1st, we can not go to the 2nd for more than 2 species/genes.
I do appreciate if you would kindly offer some references or clues.
Best,
cd
Dear CD,
the question you are dealing with is of primary importance and will require an impressive amount of reflexion! However, I think that a previous question is to be solved, concerning what the species is? It seems to me quite evident, that your concept of species is not nominalistic, but realistic, by considering species as real natural entities in the frame of life. In this case, my opinion is, that you have to explicitly choose between a relational concept of species ( see e. g. Ernst Mayr and followers) and a non relational one (see e. g. Paterson, Lambert, Eldredge). Personally I wrote a few papers about this topic, mainly from a biogeographical standpoint. I’ll very glad to send you some .pdf documents, anyway, you may download it from my ResearchGate page. Please keep in touch.
Bests
Mario
Thanks, Mario. Please kindly send your papers to [email protected].
Best,
cd
Hi
Yes it can be done with Thermodynamics, there are some books about this written by Stuart Kauffman, he explains and shows with mathematics some properties of living organism
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