Modus Darwin

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 253-278

  Sober, Elliott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Bayesianism; Creationism; Darwin; Evolution; Likelihood; Natural selection; Phylogeny; Probability; Reichenbach

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011203165     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006626115852     Document Type: Article

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