Taxonomy and Philosophy of Names

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 233-244

  Härlin, Mikael ^a,b   Sundberg, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Clade; Cladistics; Class; Definition; Evolution; Extension; Individual; Intension; Meaning; Phylogenetic taxonomy; Phylogeny; Reference; Systematics; Tree thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001261424     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006583910214     Document Type: Article

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