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'... an entertaining read and well organized ... a launching off point for a new direction in studying the species problem.' Metascience ... useful to those theoretically oriented biologists ... Recommended ... F. S. Szalay, University of New Mexico Richards examines the species problem and the philosophical questions it raises, aiming at understanding the different ways of thinking about species from Aristotle to modern biological systematics, and how we might better think about species ... This book makes a substantial contribution to scholarship on species. Thus, I recommend it highly. Review of Contemporary Philosophy ... an entertaining read and well organized ... a launching off point for a new direction in studying the species problem. Metascience

'... an entertaining read and well organized ... a launching off point for a new direction in studying the species problem.' Metascience

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Richard A. Richards is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama. He has published in major journals on a variety of topics in the philosophy of science and biology, including phylogenetic inference, theory of choice, taxonomy, and species concepts. He has also written extensively on Darwin's views about artificial selection and domestic breeding, and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to the Origins of Species (Cambridge, 2009).

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