'The realm of hard evidence': Novelty, persuasion and collaboration in botanical cladistics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 343-360

  Endersby, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Botanical Taxonomy; Boundary Objects; Cladistics; Rhetoric of Science; Sociology of Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042870233     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8486(01)00011-5     Document Type: Article

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