Adaptationism: Hypothesis or Heuristic?

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-50

  Resnik, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptationism; Heuristics; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008426375     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017936706537     Document Type: Article

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