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Commonsense: its scope and limits PART I: FOLKBIOLOGY 2. Folktaxonomy 3. The semantics of living kinds PART II: ARISTOTELIAN ESSENTIALS 4. Essence and environment 5. Materials of logical division PART III: HERBALS TO SYSTEMS 6. Origins of the species concept 7. The nature of the genus PART IV: THE SCIENTIFIC BREAKAWAY 8. The method of families and classes 9. Science, symbolism and commonsense CONCLUSIONS 10. Rudiments of the Linnaean hierarchy: toward an anthropology of science Appendix: milestones of natural history.
Scott Atran (1992) studied this question.