“Replaying Life's Tape”: Simulations, metaphors, and historicity in Stephen Jay Gould's view of life

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 58:73-81 (2016)
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