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This sweeping discussion of the philosophy of evolutionary biology is based on the author's revolutionary idea that species are not kinds of organisms but wholes composed of organisms--individuals in the broadest ontological sense. Although the book's primary focus is on species and speciation, it deals with a wide variety of other fundamental units and basic processes and provides a reexamination of the role of classification in biology and o...

Excerpt from New Perspectives on the History of Life: Essays on Systematic Biology as Historical Narrative (San Francisco, 21-23 June, 1994)So we have very good reason to take the narrative aspect of evolutionary biology very seriously, to assess its possible strengths and limitations, and to see what might be done with it in future research. But as Landau (1991) points out, in a very interesting study on the history of narratives of human evo...

Excerpt from Cultures and Institutions of Natural History: Essays in the History and Philosophy of ScienceThis volume consists mainly of papers delivered at two meetings cosponsored by the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The first, on the Culture of Natural History, was held in Milan, November 14 - 16, 1996. The second, on Institutions of Natural History, was held in San Francis...

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Excerpt from New Perspectives on the History of Life: Essays on Systematic Biology as Historical Narrative (San Francisco, 21-23 June, 1994)So we have very good reason to take the narrative aspect of evolutionary biology very seriously, to assess its possible strengths and limitations, and to see what might be done with it in future research. But as Landau (1991) points out, in a very interesting study on the history of narratives of human evo...

In explaining his individuality thesis, Michael T. Ghiselin provides extended discussions of such philosophical topics as definition, the reality of various kinds of groups, and how we classify traits and processes. He develops and applies the implications for general biology and other sciences and makes the case that a better understanding of species and of classification in general puts biologists and paleontologists in a much better positio...

In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a created species, distinct from any other animal. Then, Darwin persuasively argued that mankind and other species are descended from common ancestors. His theory of "natural selection, " also known as "survival of the fittest, " explains how life evolved through natural processes. By the 1950s,...

Excerpt from Cultures and Institutions of Natural History: Essays in the History and Philosophy of ScienceThis volume consists mainly of papers delivered at two meetings cosponsored by the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The first, on the Culture of Natural History, was held in Milan, November 14 - 16, 1996. The second, on Institutions of Natural History, was held in San Francis...