Neo-Lamarckian experimentalism in America: Origins and consequences

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 417-437

  Cook, George M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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LAMARCKIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033253237     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/394112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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