In What Sense Does ‘Nothing Make Sense Except in the Light of Evolution’?

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Acta Biotheoretica

• Publication date

  2009-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy

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  DOI 10.1007/s10441-008-9054-9PMID 18777162
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