Agreeing on generalised Darwinism: A response to Pavel Pelikan

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-18

  Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin ^a   Knudsen, Thorbjoern ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Generalised Darwinism; Lamarckism; Replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855344314     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-011-0249-x     Document Type: Editorial

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