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Risky Business

What Darwin Got Wrong Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010 (288 pp; $26.00 hbk; ISBN 978-0-374-28879-2)

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Vecchi, D. Risky Business. Biol Theory 5, 187–193 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1162/BIOT_r_00039

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