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Nature 410, 417 (22 March 2001) | doi:10.1038/35068645
Laws of form revisited
Michael Denton1 & Craig Marshall1
Before Darwin, most biologists adhered to a platonic model of nature. This implied that the biological realm consisted of a finite set of essentially immutable natural forms that, like inorganic forms such as atoms or crystals, are an intrinsic part of the eternal order of the world.
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