The social resonance of competitive and progressive evolutionary metaphors

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 997-1004

  Larson, Brendon M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biology education; Dead metaphor; Naturalistic fallacy; Root metaphor; Worldview

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845533771     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[997:TSROCA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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