Assessing the prospects for a return of organisms in evolutionary biology

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 341-372

  Huneman, Philippe ^a  

^a Universite Paris 2   (France)

Author keywords

Evo Devo; Evolutionary transitions; Explanation; Externalism; Genotypephenotype map; Modern synthesis; Organism; Structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650807164     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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