Erratum: Character analysis in cladistics: Abstraction, reification, and the search for objectivity (Acta Biotheor DOI: 10.1007/s10441-008-9064-7);Character analysis in cladistics: Abstraction, reification, and the search for objectivity

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 129-162

  Winther, Rasmus Grønfeldt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Biological theory; Causation; Characters; Cladistics; Epistemology; Morphology; Phylogenetics; Reification

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 67651166691     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-009-9074-0     Document Type: Erratum

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