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From species to classification and back again

Richard A. Richards: Biological classification: A philosophical introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, ix+302pp, $99.00 HB

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Honenberger, P. From species to classification and back again. Metascience 26, 493–497 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0223-9

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