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Reading and Misreading Fisher: Anthony Edwards and the History of Population Genetics

from Part 2 - Commentaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2018

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
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Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory, and History of Science
Selected Papers of A. W. F. Edwards with Commentaries
, pp. 386 - 398
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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