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Species: the evolution of the idea (1st)

Part of the Species and Systematics series
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This title examines the complex idea of 'species', an idea central to the field of biology.

By tracing its history from antiquity to the present day, the author explores the essentialist view dating from Plato and Aristotle and considers the idea of species in natural history - a concept often connected to reproduction.

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Product Details
CRC Press
1351677993 / 9781351677998
eBook (EPUB)
577
29/01/2018
English
389 pages
Copy: 30%; print: 30%
Reprint. Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed. Originally published: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.