Original sentence: homo sequences will be more important than hierarchies
Edited sentence: According to intellectual historian Louis Menand,.But later, in The Descent of Man when addressing "The question whether mankind consists of one or several species", Darwin revised his opinion to say.Darwin wrote in chapter II of On the Origin of Species,.Darwin's theories shifted attention from uniformity to variation and from the general to the particular.Generally the term includes the unknown element of a distinct act of creation.No one definition has satisfied all naturalists; yet every naturalist knows vaguely what he means when he speaks of a species.Once our attention is redirected to the individual, we need another way of making generalizations.Prior to Darwin, naturalists viewed species as ideal or general types, which could be exemplified by an ideal specimen bearing all the traits general to the species.Relations will be more important than categories; functions, which are variable, will be more important than purposes; transitions will be more important than boundaries; sequences will be more important than hierarchies.The modern theory of evolution depends on a fundamental redefinition of "species".The question of how best to define "species" is one that has occupied biologists for centuries, and the debate itself has become known as the species problem.To generalize about groups of interacting individuals, we need to drop the language of types and essences, which is prescriptive (telling us what finches should be), and adopt the language of statistics and probability, which is predictive (telling us what the average finch, under specified conditions, is likely to do).We are no longer interested in the conformity of an individual to an ideal type; we are now interested in the relation of an individual to the other individuals with which it interacts.it is a hopeless endeavour to decide this point on sound grounds, until some definition of the term "species" is generally accepted; and the definition must not include an element which cannot possibly be ascertained, such as an act of creation