Species and kinds: A critique of Rieppel's "one of a kind" account of species

Cladistics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 660-667

  Reydon, Thomas A C ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 70350450757     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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