Relativism as a means to alleviate biology from genomic reductionism: But is the remedy effective?: Denis Noble: Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity. Cambridge University Press, December 2016, 302pp, £17.99 HB [Book Review]

Metascience 27 (1):111-115 (2017)
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