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The world represented as a hierarchy of nature may not require “species”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Stanley N. Salthe
Stanley N. Salthe
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Department of Biology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11210
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1981 , pp. 300 - 301
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