Species are Real Biological Entities

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 91-109

  Claridge, Michael F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal speciation that of geographical or allopatric speciation; Biological species concepts; Early species concepts Linnaeus; General phylogenetic species concept; Phylogenetic relationships as tokogenetic ones; Species as real biological entities; Species problem species concepts and species taxa; Theories of allopatric speciation and sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889464785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314922.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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