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Is Drift a Serious Alternative to Natural Selection as an Explanation of Complex Adaptive Traits?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2017

Elliott Sober
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‘There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.’

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 56 , December 2005 , pp. 125 - 153
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2005

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