What Sort of Science Is Evolutionary Biology?
Dialogue 30 (1-2):129- (1991)
| Abstract | A review of Paul Thompson's semantic interpretation of evolutionary theory. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Semantic view of theories Natural selection | |||||||||
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