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Discussion: Species Are Individuals—Or Are They?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Thomas A. C. Reydon
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Abstract

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.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 49 - 56
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