Metaphysics and the Origin of Species

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State University of New York Press, Jul 10, 1997 - Philosophy - 377 pages
This sweeping discussion of the philosophy of evolutionary biology is based on the revolutionary idea that species are not kinds of organisms but wholes composed of organisms.

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Metaphysics and the Origin of Species
Michael T. Ghiselin
Limited preview - 1997
Metaphysics and the Origin of Species
Michael T. Ghiselin
Limited preview - 1997

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Michael T. Ghiselin is the author of Intellectual Compromise, The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex, and The Triumph of the Darwinian Method. A Senior Research Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, he is the recipient of a 1981 MacArthur Prize and was awarded the 1970 Pfizer Prize by the History of Science Society.

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TitleMetaphysics and the Origin of Species
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology
AuthorMichael T. Ghiselin
Editionillustrated
PublisherState University of New York Press, 1997
ISBN0791434680, 9780791434680
Length377 pages
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Philosophy / General
Philosophy / Metaphysics
Science / Life Sciences / Biology
Science / Life Sciences / Evolution
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
  
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