Species : new interdisciplinary essays / edited by Robert A. Wilson.

Other author Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Andrew)
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxxi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects

Contents On the impossibility of a monistic account of species / John Dupré -- On the plurality of species: questioning the party line / 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: implication 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.
General note"A Bradford book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98034713
ISBN0262232014 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0262731231 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QH83 .S725 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold