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Paper was completed under grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and from the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which I acknowledge with thanks. I also am grateful to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University for its hospitality during 1980–81. The paper has benefited from advice from James Crow, Berent Enc, Kristin Guyot, Steven Kimbrough, Richard Lewontin, and Donald Waller.
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Sober, E. Evolutionary theory and the ontological status of properties. Philosophical Studies 40, 147–176 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00353787
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