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Do the objections of Darwin’s critics indicate the use of a proportional analogy in the Origin?

Roger M. White, M. J. S. Hodge, and Gregory Radick: Darwin’s argument by analogy: from artificial to natural selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, viii+251pp, $99.99 HB

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Sullivan-Clarke, A. Do the objections of Darwin’s critics indicate the use of a proportional analogy in the Origin?. Metascience 31, 145–149 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00768-y

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