Adaptive landscapes and dynamic equilibrium: The Spencerian contribution to twentieth-century American evolutionary biology

Darwinian Heresies

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 131-150

  Ruse, Michael ^a  

^a Philosophy a State University   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511512179.007     Document Type: Chapter

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