Linnaeus's biology was not essentialist

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2-7

  Winsor, Mary P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

A. J. Cain; E. Mayr; Essentialism; History of systematics; History of taxonomy; Linnaeus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745585106     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/0026-6493(2006)93[2:LBWNE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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