Building on bedrock: William Steel Creighton and the reformation of ant systematics, 1925-1970

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-70

  Buhs, Joshua Blu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; E. O. Wilson; Ernst Mayr; Systematics; Systematics and the Origin of Species; Taxonomy; William L. Brown; William Morton Wheeler; William Steel Creighton

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034022588     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004712911037     Document Type: Article

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