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The History of EvoDevo and the Influence of the 1981 Dahlem Workshop on Evolution and Development

Alan C. Love (ed.): Conceptual Change in Biology: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 307); Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht, 2015, 490 pp., $179 hbk, ISBN 978-94-017-94111-4

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Olsson, L. The History of EvoDevo and the Influence of the 1981 Dahlem Workshop on Evolution and Development. Biol Theory 11, 47–49 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-015-0229-8

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