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Dedicated to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of her 80th Birthday
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Burian, R.M. How the choice of experimental organism matters: Biological practices and discipline boundaries. Synthese 92, 151–166 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413747
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