Heuristics and Biases in Evolutionary Biology

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-38

  Magnus, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biases; Consilience of inductions; Heuristics; Isolation; Replication; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344195925     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017953510082     Document Type: Article

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