Modus Darwin
Biology and Philosophy 14 (2) (1999)
| Abstract | Modus Darwin is a principle of inference that licenses the conclusion that two species have a common ancestor, based on the observation that they are similar. The present paper investigates the principle's probabilistic foundations. | |||||||||
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