Author: Wilson, Robert Andrew ; editor:
Title: Species : New Interdisciplinary Essays
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, 1999. orig.cloth. 26x17cm, xxi,325 pp.. Minor rubbing. Small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents: On the impossibility of a monistic account of species / John Dupré -- On the plurality of species / David L. Hull -- The general lineage concept of species and the defining properties of the species category / Kevin de Queiroz -- When is a rose : the kinds of tetrahymena / David L. Nanney -- Species as ecological mosaics / Kim Sterelny -- Homeostasis, species, and higher taxa / Richard Boyd -- Realism, essence, and kind : resuscitating species essentialism / Robert A. Wilson -- Squaring the circle : natural kinds with historical essences / Paul E. Griffiths -- The universal primacy of generic species in folkbiological taxonomy : implications for human biological, cultural, and scientific evolution / Scott Atran -- Species, stuff, and patterns of causation / Frank C. Keil and Daniel C. Richardson -- Species and the linnaean hierarchy / Marc Ereshefsky -- Getting rid of species / Brent D. Mishler.

Keywords: Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, Science, Evolution, Species, , , ,