Article ID: CBB000340579

Non-Essentialist Methods in Pre-Darwinian Taxonomy (2003)

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Description Proposes that the current widespread belief that taxonomic methods used before Darwin were essentialist is ill-founded. [Note that the printed pagination of this article overlaps with that of the last article in issue 2.]


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Authors & Contributors
Winsor, Mary P.
Müller-Wille, Staffan
Stephen B. Heard
Emily S. Damstra
Spencer, Quayshawn
Honenberger, Phillip
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Journal of the History of Biology
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Biology and Philosophy
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
Publishers
Yale University Press
University of Georgia Press
Pour la Science
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Classification in biology
Biology
Essentialism
Botany
Systematics (biology)
Philosophy
People
Linnaeus, Carolus
Mayr, Ernst
Odum, Eugene P.
Grene, Marjorie
Hull, David Lee
Tansley, Arthur George
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Modern
Places
Sweden
France
Europe
Great Britain
Institutions
Linnean Society of London
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