Daniel J Nicholson (@djnicholson.bsky.social)

Every biological entity is unique; no two are exactly alike. Is this a trivial observation, or a profound metaphysical claim about the living world? Read my new paper & find out! It deals with Mayr's "Population Thinking"; one of the most familiar yet tragically misunderstood ideas in all of biology

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Population Thinking and the Uniqueness of Biological Entities - Acta Biotheoretica Acta Biotheoretica - The concept of ‘population thinking’ was introduced by Ernst Mayr in the mid-twentieth century and it has since become one of the most pervasive notions in the... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10441-025-09498-0

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