The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology

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Stamos squarely confronts the problem of determining what a biological species is, whether species are real, and the nature of their reality. He critically considers the evolution of the major contemporary views of species and also offers his own solution to the species problem.

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