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6 - Darwin's five theories of evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Ernst Mayr
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Harvard University, Massachusetts
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What Makes Biology Unique?
Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
, pp. 97 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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