Philosophy of Biology

394 Michael Wheeler mapping between mRNA base triplets and amino acids, suggesting strongly that, strictly speaking, it’s mRNA t ...

Traits, Genes, and Coding 395 doesn’t carry instructional information, since (and this point has been bubbling just below the su ...

396 Michael Wheeler that if you order the extra-large pizza, that will have the consequence that the delivery arrives late. This ...

Traits, Genes, and Coding 397 for. The discrepancy here indicates that the appeal to selection falls short of the explanatory ma ...

398 Michael Wheeler Available at: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002351/01/Func.Hom.Chr.PDF [Griffiths and Gray, 1994 ...

Traits, Genes, and Coding 399 [Wheeler, 2003] M. Wheeler. Do genes code for traits? In A. Rojszczak, J. Cachro and G. Kurczewski ...

Taxonomy Part IV ...

SPECIES, TAXONOMY, AND SYSTEMATICS Marc Ereshefsky 1 INTRODUCTION Conceptual issues in biological taxonomy often straddle the bo ...

404 Marc Ereshefsky not correspond to categories in nature, as many critics of the Linnaean hierarchy argue, then most biodivers ...

Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics 405 all talk of classifying species taxa according to their species-specific essences [Hull, ...

406 Marc Ereshefsky on common stores of genetic material and developmental constraints. These com- mon genetic and developmental ...

Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics 407 it is water. Individuals, unlike kinds, consist of parts that are spatiotemporally restri ...

408 Marc Ereshefsky lieves that some species taxa are spatiotemporally continuous entities, while other species taxa are spatiot ...

Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics 409 the criticisms of species essentialism are avoided. Furthermore, HPC allows that external ...

410 Marc Ereshefsky that arose through multiple hybridization events. Boyd [1999b , 80] characterizes this species as containing ...

Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics 411 a number of similarities, including having large, fuzzy antlers. What explains that simil ...

412 Marc Ereshefsky 3.1 The Case for Pluralism Let us start by introducing three prominent species concepts in biology. There ar ...

Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics 413 B C A Figure 1. A branching event on a phylogenetic tree. If species must be mono- phylet ...

414 Marc Ereshefsky advocated by Kitcher [1984], Ereshefsky [1992], and Dupr ́e [1993] is not episte- mologically driven. It is ...

Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics 415 genetic standards for being cohesive evolutionary units. Mishler and Brandon’s pluralism ...