Parsimony, likelihood, and instrumentalism in systematics

Biology and Philosophy 22 (1):141-144 (2007)
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‘Total evidence’ in phylogenetic systematics.Olivier Rieppel - 2009 - Biology and Philosophy 24 (5):607-622.

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The poverty of historicism.Karl Raimund Popper - 1960 - London,: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Metaphysics and the Origin of Species.Michael T. Ghiselin - 1997 - State University of New York Press.
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