Article ID: CBB000410818

Discussion: Species Are Individuals; Or Are They? (2003)

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Recently Coleman and Wiley presented a new defense of the species-are-individuals thesis, based on an analysis of the use of binomial species names by biologists. Here I point out some problems in their defense and I argue that although in some domains of biological science species are best understood as individuals, Coleman and Wiley fail to establish that this is true for the whole of biology. (from the abstract)

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Description Analysis of an argument based on a study of binomial nomenclature in biology.


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Authors & Contributors
Lherminier, Philippe
W. Ford Doolittle
Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso
Bernardi, Massimo
Menegon, Michele
Ricardo Noguera-Solano
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Science and Education
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Science
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Biology and Philosophy
Publishers
Armando
Wiley-Blackwell
Concepts
Species concept (biology)
Biology
Philosophy of biology
Terminology and nomenclature
Classification in biology
Evolution
People
Mayr, Ernst
Linnaeus, Carolus
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monet de
Plato
Malebranche, Nicolas de
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Early modern
Places
Sweden
Italy
France
Institutions
International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses
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