Book contents
- Biological Classification
- Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology
- Biological Classification
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Why Classify?
- 2 The Aristotelian Framework
- 3 The Darwinian Pivot
- 4 Evolutionary Taxonomy and the Cladistic Challenge
- 5 The Tree of Life
- 6 The Species Problem
- 7 The Metaphysics of Biological Classification
- 8 Theory and the World
- 9 The Essential Tension
- References
- Index
3 - The Darwinian Pivot
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2016
- Biological Classification
- Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology
- Biological Classification
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Why Classify?
- 2 The Aristotelian Framework
- 3 The Darwinian Pivot
- 4 Evolutionary Taxonomy and the Cladistic Challenge
- 5 The Tree of Life
- 6 The Species Problem
- 7 The Metaphysics of Biological Classification
- 8 Theory and the World
- 9 The Essential Tension
- References
- Index
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- Biological ClassificationA Philosophical Introduction, pp. 64 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016