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Evolutionary chance and contingency: in search for systematics

Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence (eds.): Chance in evolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016, 384 pp, $45.00, ₤31.50 PB

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    Jeroen Hopster

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Hopster, J. Evolutionary chance and contingency: in search for systematics. Metascience 26, 481–485 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0213-y

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