Discussion: What, if anything, is "the strategy of model building in population biology?" A comment on levins (1966) and odenbaugh (2003)

Philosophy of Science

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 479-485

  Orzack, Steven Hecht ^a  

^a Fresh Pond Research Institute Cambridge   (United States)

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EID: 32144444330     PISSN: 00318248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498475     Document Type: Review

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