Philosophy of Biology

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  • Osborn, M.L. 2013. The comparative anatomy of the head, neck, and shoulder of human beings and tetrapods. Ph.D. Dissertation. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04112013-203731/
  • Wood, B.M. 2013. Scientific modeling and scientific realism: A view from biological morphology. Masters Thesis. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/2860/
  • Gudo, M. & Homberger, D. G. 2004. Retro-Engineering: A Morphological-Analytical Method for Inferring Function and Evolution of Extinct Organisms. J. Morph., 260 (3): 295-296.
  • Homberger, D. G., Zweers, G. A. & Starck, J. M. 2001. Synthetic Evolutionary Morphology: The Contributions of Walter J. Bock. J. Morph., 248 (3): 242.
  • Homberger, D. G., Starck, J. M. & Zweers, G. A. 2001. Theoretical and empirical underpinnings of functional morphology. J. Morph., 248 (3): 242.
  • Homberger, D.G. 2001. The case of the cockatoo bill, horse hoof, rhinoceros horn, whale baleen, and turkey beard: The integument as a model system to explore the concepts of homology and non-homology. Pp. 317-343 in Vertebrate functional morphology: Horizon of research in the 21stcentury (H.M. Dutta & J.S. Datta Munshi, eds.). Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi; and Science Publishers Inc., Enfield, New Hampshire.
  • Homberger, D.G. 2000. Similarities and differences: The distinct approaches of systematics and comparative anatomy towards homology and analogy. Pp. 53-72 in Organisms, Genes and Evolution: Evolutionary theory at the crossroads (D.S. Peters & M. Weingarten, eds.). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart.
  • Homberger, D. G. 1998. Was ist Biologie? [What is biology?]. Pp. 11-28 in Was wissen Biologen schon vom Leben? Die biologische Wissenschaft nach der molekular-genetischen Revolution [What do biologists know about life? The biological sciences after the molecular-genetic revolution] (A. Dally, ed.). Loccumer Protokolle 14/97. Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Rehburg-Loccum, Germany.
  • Homberger, D. G. 1988. Models and tests in morphology: The significance of description and integration. Amer. Zool., 28 (1): 217-229.
  • Bock, W. J. & D. G. Homberger. 1988. Preface. (Symposium: Questions, Explanations, Models and Tests in Morphology: The Interaction Between Hypotheses and Empirical Observations). Amer. Zool., 28 (1): 185-187.