Typology Reconsidered: Two Doctrines on the History of Evolutionary Biology

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 153-177

  Amundson, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptationism; Essentialism; Idealism; Morphology; Richard Owen; Typology

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 0031870813     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006599002775     Document Type: Article

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