Jody Hey                  Evolutionary Genetics

  Professor    -     Department of Genetics     -   Rutgers University

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Unpublishable Manuscripts

This page contains links to papers by Jody Hey that some people may be interested in, but that have not been published for one reason or another.

A reduction of "Species" and a Resolution of the Species Problem

This paper represents an early attempt  (well before work began on the book,  Genes, Categories and Species) to address the species problem.  It contains a fairly full, and I still think correct, description of the reasons why some groups of related organisms deserve to be called species.  

 View online 'A Reduction of "Species" and a Resolution of the Species Problem'

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Words and Distinction

In the midst of thinking about the species problem,  I spent a fair bit of time wondering over the utility of our words, and the ways that we use words to describe things in nature that are not very distinct.  One outcome of all this was an experiment conducted over the internet.  The results of this study are in a short paper entitled "Words and Distinction" 

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