“Population” Is Not a Natural Kind of Kinds

Biological Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 154-160

  Stegenga, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

conceptual pluralism; population; Roberta Millstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891951131     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/BIOT_a_00029     Document Type: Article

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