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Realism, Essence, and Kind: Resuscitating Species Essentialism?
Robert A. Wilson
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The article was published on 1999-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 121 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Essentialism & Realism.read more
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The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents
TL;DR: The first volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness is The Innate Mind: Structure and Content as mentioned in this paper, which brings together the top nativist scholars in philosophy, psychology, and allied disciplines.
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Resurrecting Biological Essentialism
TL;DR: This article argued that biological generalizations about the morphology, physiology, and behavior of species require structural explanations that must advert to these essential properties, and argued that this essentialism can accommodate features of Darwinism associated with variation and change.
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Crossing species boundaries
TL;DR: This paper critically examines the biology of species identity and the morality of crossing species boundaries in the context of emerging research that involves combining human and nonhuman animals at the genetic or cellular level.
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Mechanisms and natural kinds
TL;DR: The authors defend the Homeostatic Property Cluster (HPC) view as a third way between conventionalism and essentialism about natural kinds (Boyd, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1999).
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When Traditional Essentialism Fails: Biological Natural Kinds
TL;DR: A survey of the chief responses to the death of essentialism in the philosophy of biology can be found in this article, where the claim that biological kinds are homeostatic property clusters is presented.
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Species Concepts and Speciation Analysis
TL;DR: A new mechanistic taxonomy of speciation is needed before population genetics, which deals with evolutionary mechanisms, can be properly integrated with speciation theory; that is, the various modes of Speciation should be characterized according to the various forces and genetic mechanisms that underly the evolution of isolating barriers.
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A Radical Solution to the Species Problem
TL;DR: Hull (1974) has lately endorsed the idea that, from the point of view of evolutionary theory, biological species and monophyletic taxa are individuals, and Mayr (1969a), while not going so far, strongly emphasizes the point that species are more than just nominal classes.
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Growth of biological thought
TL;DR: Magner and Magner as discussed by the authors presented a history of the life sciences and its history in a book entitled "A History of the Life Sciences" by Lois N. Magner. Pp. 496.
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Are Species Really Individuals
TL;DR: Griselin's argument is argued that species as chunks of the genealogical nexus are individuals, not classes of similar things, and that their names are proper names to be defined ostensively in a manner analogous to a christening.