Species as Explanatory Hypotheses: Refinements and Implications

2009/02/17 by Kirk Fitzhugh · 46 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior #Biology #Ecology #Epistemology #Evolutionary biology #Genetics #Intraspecific competition #Marine Biology and Ecology Research #Obligate #Philosophy and History of Science #Philosophy of biology #Phylogenetic tree #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1007/s10441-009-9071-3

published in Acta Biotheoretica 57(1-2), 201-248 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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