BRANKO KOZULIC
The Essence Of
Biological Species
2022.
Branko Kozulić
Author's message
From Prologue
Accordingly, this book deals with philosophical questions of general interest which have in certain ways affected my private and professional life. I am well aware that my answers will be found displeasing to some and irritating to others, and that many will see them as too categorical, too black-and-white, or too definitive. But what is the benefit of not offering a clear and definitive answer, when it can be done?
Branko Kozulić
The Essence Of Biological Species
This is a challenging book. It deals with philosophy and with science. For philosophers, it probably contains too much science, and for scientists too much philosophy – and for the average reader, too much of both. And yet, such a composition is necessary for a book having the ambitious goal of demonstrating the falsity of certain scientific theories and of a branch of philosophy.
Branko Kozulić
About the Author
From Prologue
It is customary for an author to provide some personal information and a description of the motives for writing the book. I was born in 1953 in a family of seamen on a small island on the Croatian side of the Adriatic Sea. Both of my grandfathers, as well as my father, were sea captains, who worked on family owned ships or abroad on yachts after the communist abolition of private property following the Second World War. During the war, both my grandfathers were taken as hostages to Dachau concentration camp; 1 my mother’s father died shortly after transfer to another camp (Flossenbürg) in 1944, while my father’s father returned home barely alive.