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‘So far like the present period’: a reply to ‘C.H. Waddington’s differences with the creators of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis: a Tale of Two Genes’

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Peterson, E.L. ‘So far like the present period’: a reply to ‘C.H. Waddington’s differences with the creators of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis: a Tale of Two Genes’. HPLS 39, 19 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-017-0145-2

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