Defusing ideological defenses in biology

BioScience

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 118-123

  Potochnik, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

modeling; Philosophy; population biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873678811     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2013.63.2.7     Document Type: Article

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