Book of Donmon Teith

Individuals are things that everybody knows—or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an

"This is a book of interest to philosophers of biology, metaphysicians, and biologists."--BOOK JACKET.

Introduction: working together on individuality / Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard -- The work of biological individuality: concepts and contexts / Scott Lidgar

Immunology asserts that an individual can be defined through self and nonself. Thomas Pradeu argues that this theory is inadequate, because immune responses to

The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings. Our intuitive assumption that o