Is it a revolution?

Biology and Philosophy 22 (3):429-437 (2007)
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Jablonka and Lamb's claim that evolutionary biology is undergoing a ‘revolution’ is queried. But the very concept of revolutionary change has uncertain application to a field organized in the manner of contemporary biology. The explanatory primacy of sequence properties is also discussed.

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10.1007/s10539-007-9062-1

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