Re-writing Popper's philosophy of science for systematics

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 293-316

  Rieppel, Olivier ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Evolution; Karl Popper; Phylogenetic systematics; Thomas Kuhn

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LOGIC; PHILOSOPHY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LOGIC; PHILOSOPHY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 68049135758     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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