The mind, the lab, and the field: Three kinds of populations in scientific practice

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-21

  Winther, Rasmus Grønfeldt ^a   Giordano, Ryan ^b   Edge, Michael D ^c   Nielsen, Rasmus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Models; Ontology; Population Genetics; Reification; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRIBOLIUM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHILOSOPHY; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84938418309     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.01.009     Document Type: Article

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