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The importance of being Ernst

Nature volume 333, pages 25–26 (1988)Cite this article

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist.

By Ernst Mayr. Harvard University Press: 1988. Pp.564. $35. To be published in Britain in June.

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